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I'll call to order the work session of the Wilsville City Council for April 20th, 2026 at 5:00 pm. Start by asking council members review uh the agenda and items on consent. Are there any comments? Okay. Any councelor concerns? Okay. Turning now to the work session. First up is Wil Wilsonville Industrial Land Readiness. Staff ready to go. All right. I'll start talking while you do that. All right. Good evening, uh, Mayor O'Neal, Council President Barry, counselors, we appreciate your time tonight. So, uh, for the record, my name is Chris Myers. I'm a senior planner here with Wilsonville, and I'm just so glad that wasn't mine. Oh, I had a that'll get the heart racing a little bit. Okay. Um, yeah, check your phones, everybody. Um, okay. So, uh, with me tonight, start kind of starting over. With me tonight is, uh, Lauren Scott from MIG, uh, consulting firm and joining us, uh, remotely is Alex Dupy, also from MIG. And of course, uh, sitting next to me is Matt Lorenzan, the city's economic development manager. So, tonight's work session uh, focuses on the West Railroad area within the Basalt Creek planning area. All right. Uh now this has long been identified as a strategic employment area uh both in or to intent intended to support long-term job growth both here in Wilsonville as well as in the larger uh metropolitan area. So

based on feedback that we received um in October of 2025 at the joint planning commission city council work session and with some additional technical analysis uh staff and our consulting team uh we've developed a preliminary preferred concept for west railroad. Now the concept aims to balance economic development potential with environmental stewardship by maximizing employment land you while preserving key natural resource areas and integrating recreational amenities such as the Ice Age Tonkan Trail. Now the preferred concept also identifies transportation improvements necessary to support long-term employment development and freight access throughout the West Railroad area. So tonight we are fe seeking council's feedback on the preferred the west railroad preferred preliminary preferred concept. Wow. Um I'm going to turn it over to Lauren who's going to walk you through the presentation and we'll take it from there. Lauren.

Thanks Chris and good evening mayor and counselors. Like Chris said my name is Lauren Scott. My colleague Alex Dupy is also online. We really appreciate your time to meet with us tonight. We're looking forward to share where the project is in the process, the work that's been done since the last meeting, and get your feedback on the preliminary preferred concept as we move closer towards integrating this work for West Railroad back into the Basalt Creek concept plan. In terms of where we are in the process, the city held an initial joint work session that Chris talked about in October. At that time, we were working on a slightly different timeline that was more compressed. Since then, we've made additional progress, especially on the technical side. There's been additional analysis on transportation in the area by DKS and work is also ongoing to better understand the water and sewer infrastructure needs in the area. This work session follows a similar planning commission session where we presented the preferred preliminary concept. At that meeting, we got commissioner feedback. There were no recommended changes that they had to the preferred concept. Um, but the goal is to make sure that this piece of the plan is in a good place and that there's general comfort with where the concept graphic stands and what's planned for this area before then shifting into the larger work sessions on the Basalt Creek concept plan as a whole. Following that, the aim is to move into adoption hearings in the fall. During the work session last October, there were three draft concepts that were presented. The first was the Tonkan environment integrating development with natural features through enhanced open space trail connections and a campus style mix of employment uses. However, the identified drawback with that was that there were large areas dedicated to natural features that could limit the space for job growth and employment. That second concept was manufacturing and industry focusing on regional

connectivity and infrastructure upgrades to support large-scale industrial development and higher density employment. This was highlighted for its potential for job creation and long-term revenue while still allowing the integration of those natural features that were recognized in the area. The third concept was called limited connectivity and flexible land use. It emphasized incremental and adaptable growth with a wide mix of uses that could evolve over time. The flexibility was recognized as a positive. But the identified drawback there was that it lacks a clear intentional vision and felt reactive rather than strategic. So the direction given by the planning commission city council was to blend concepts one and two combining that natural resource integration with strong employment potential to form that preferred concept. And so turning to the preferred concept this is the graphic overall and I'll go through each of the elements in a more detail in a second. The preferred concept aims to maximize developable land where possible while being mindful of the environmental and infrastructure constraints in the area. It seeks to preserve the remaining habitat, especially in that center core area and enhance the creek edge, helping maintain the natural character and maximizing the recreational opportunities that could happen in the area. The concept also considers additional road connections to improve circulation and connectivity across the site. Though the exact layout would be refined as planning progresses, we are showing an internal north south local industrial street through the site. We're also showing a potential public crossing at Cahalen Road which is not without its challenges like we discussed back in October and I'll cover that in more detail in our transportation slides coming up in a second. And then finally, the preferred concept envisions linking the Ice Age Tonkan

Trail with the internal network, creating that continuous pathway to connect open space, amenities, and employment areas. Breaking the concept down for a second, we're focusing on the land use or developable areas that we've identified in purple. The invi this is envisioned to be a range of industrial park uses from manufacturing to warehousing and positioning the area for higher quality long-term employment and development. This land use vision is aspirational. It's guiding the area's future, leaving the door open for a variety of industrial park uses at different scales of development. At the same time, we are recognizing some clear limitations. The development area in purple is pulled back from that rail line to recognize the existing BPA easement which runs along the western side of the railroad. Shifting into transportation. This was a key part in evaluating the preliminary preferred concept. DKS and associates conducted an analysis to look at how the area could function both within the existing network and any previously planned roadways connections, other projects that have been identified. And this work helped vet the preliminary preferred concept. Are the lines and arrows we're showing on this graphic going to work? And will they result in unintended impacts or a whole list of new projects? A quick overview of how the transportation analysis was conducted. A 20-year traffic horizon was evaluated, assuming that the plan network improvements that include the Basalt Creek Parkway extension, the improvements at Graham's Ferry and Day Roads and the Garden Acres Connection happen in the area. The analysis relied on the preferred land use scenario using an industrial park mix, small service

businesses with larger manufacturing uses to reflect the anticipated development intensity and multimodal access was assessed that includes vehicles, freight, pedestrians, bicycles, but all at a planning level scale. And then DKS and city staff also coordinated closely with Washington County for that Tonken Road connection which is in the county's jurisdiction as well as the railroad operator about the potential Cahalen crossing. Oh, okay. The analysis assumed two many two primary entrance points. There's a north south local industrial street that I just talked about running through the site connecting Tonkan Road to the north to Graham's Ferry Road to the south. To be conservative, the baseline analysis does not include that railroad crossing. Access is relying on those existing roads. In preliminary discussions with Washington County, local street access to Tonken Road is a potential option, but any connection would obviously need to meet the county's standards for access, safety, and operational standards. Internal alignment of that local street is dependent on development. But the preliminary concept does show this dash line representing that desired connection acknowledging that actual development can vary and may vary when development actually occurs out there. And while the Cahalen crossing was not included in the baseline transportation assumptions used for the analysis, it still reflected in the preferred concept because of those long-term benefits, the reduction in reliance on other access points and the improved connectivity it would provide to the site. The city has been in contact with railroad representatives who are generally open to the idea of a public crossing. They noted that it would likely be at that Cahalen Road existing one and there would need to be added safety

protections there and improvements at another crossing could also be required as as mitigation. The key takeaway from that analysis is that there are no major off-site road upgrades needed beyond what's already planned for in the adopted TSP. With any uh with or with the Tonkan Road access and the potential Cahalen road crossing, there is limited reliance on any connection to Morgan Road. You may recall we had talked a little bit about access needing to come in from the west to the site. that has been dropped off of the preferred concept based on the transportation analysis. The analysis also showed that the internal network performs adequately under the assumed development and traffic conditions and that the ice age trail ice age tonken trail alignment can be accommodated as currently proposed and envisioned in the concept graphic. And so when we're looking at this area, we thought this snapshot may be a good idea to recap everything that would be happening in this area. The first would be that local industrial street providing access through the site which would be finalized and provided by development. There would need to be road upgrades at Tonkan Road for truck access and safety improvements. At the October meeting, we talked a lot about the restrictions that current railroad undercrossing at Grahams Ferry Road has, and this would continue to be in the preferred concept, staff has communicated that while the undercrossing project is key to unlocking the West Railroad area as a whole, that project is likely needed regardless of whether this area develops or not. Then we have the Cahalen road crossing which is optional but uh ideal. So we've kept that on there. Tied to that is potential intersection improvements and

upgrades at Cahalen and Grahams Ferry Road. And then the pedestrian and bicycle trails through the site are also shown. The city's TSP does identify the development of the Ice Age Tonkan Trail as a priority project, which leads us to our next slide. The Ice Age Tonkan Trail alignment runs through the West Railroad area. It comes down along Morgan Road to the west, following the edge of Coffee Creek through the site and exiting the site at the southern corner. The preferred concept reflects that regional alignment, but also envisions potential additional trails near the existing tree grove at the center of the site. And if the Cahalen crossing is built, that trail could provide a direct connection to Cahalen Road. And then I would be remiss not to just mention the other elements that would be included in any development in this area. That includes storm water infrastructure, the internal circulation streets, the driveways, off- streetet parking, uh loading areas, landscaping, and all those other site amenities that are not necessarily reflected on this concept graphic, but would be uh anticipated and required by the city as development happens out here. And I think that brings us to the end of my slides. I'll pause here on the overall concept graphic again and our questions for you tonight, although we're open to of course any other feedback. Is the preferred preliminary concept consistent with the guidance that we received from you all last October? And then are there any aspects of the concept that need clarification?

Counselors, councelor Cunningham, thank you for the presentation. Um, I know before we talked about the material pit and the business that operates in that northern section. Um, so it wasn't mentioned in this in this presentation. What how is that going to play into all of this?

The development out here, and I'll also ask city staff to step in and help me here, but the development out here is really the next 10, 20, 25 years. And so this is the ideal. This graphic reflects a lot of city pre-planning and a lot of city intervention and strategies into making development out here work. We'll note that the internal street does jog around that operation that's currently active there. Um so we are understanding that there are different timelines for development out there that might not go away. The southern part may develop on a different timeline.

Sure. So that that access off tonkin that's free of that uh material pit and all that stuff it would be able to be used sooner than than if they had if they stick around for 20 or 30 years that that road isn't dependent on them being there or not that access I guess I would say

yeah I I I I believe there'd be a right-of-way acquisition involved there. Um, so to answer your question directly, no, the construction of that road would be contingent upon cooperation from the material pit that currently exists there.

Okay. Um, and then you mentioned that the railroad crossing road, uh, what am I looking at here? Uh, Graham's Ferry, uh, with the railroad crossing. Um, you said that regardless of West Railroad developing or not, that we would want to kind of take care of that crossing either way. You know, kind of looking looking I pull up Google Maps kind of get that satellite view of what's going on in that area. Um, you know, south south of that crossing is pretty much Viba and it's not a lot of commercial or industrial development down there. So, if you could just kind of expound upon that about why that would need to get developed when it doesn't appear that there would be a lot of heavy traffic going through there.

I'm looking for Zach in the back of the room. I'm not sure any of us are equipped. I know I'm not equipped to respond to what analysis has been done, what study has been done to validate the need for the um the upgrade of of Graham's Ferry to allow for taller trucks to pass under there. Um I mean clearly if West Railroad were to develop, we want trucks to go north on Grahams Ferry and not south. So that makes sense. What I can't speak to is why it would be needed if Welsh Railroad doesn't develop. Sorry.

Fair enough. Um and then I guess kind of my last uh observation on this um you know this West Railroad is you know it's it's part of the Basalt Creek master plan, but it's also a part that it seems isn't you know it's it's very much back burnered there. We're looking at

20 years more. Um, it seems like Basalt Creek itself is is kind of ready to go and and I just it makes me ponder why why we're tying these two together and why West Railroad wouldn't be its own thing and we're not trying to move forward with Basalt Creek kind of a little bit quicker knowing that we have aggregation that's occurred out there and then we have developers ready to roll. Um, why why we're why this wouldn't be excluded into its own uh project. Um, you know, having Coffee Creek, Basalt Creek, and then West Railroad as its own entity. I That's

That's a loaded question. I can speak to the the area. I can speak a little Maybe I can speak a little bit to that. Lauren is on

apologies for not being able to be there in person today. Um my understanding is that Basalt Creek when it was originally the concept plan was when it was originally developed um there was basically a placeholder for the the railroad west railroad area to be stred studied further and so that's why we've been doing this work is to because Basalt Creek is coming coming back up for adoption and moving forward as you mentioned um there is development essentially ready to go that this completes that final puzzle uh for the the entire Basalt Creek area. And so that's one reason why we spent a little bit more time looking at both the infrastructure as well as transportation elements for the railroad, the west railroad area to be able to bring it up to the same level as the rest of the Basalt Creek concept plan. And so it takes it out of that we'll figure this out later uh bucket to you know kind of final incorporation into the plan and then moving everything forward at the same time. So I think that's why that was the original intent of this and we have been a little bit delayed primarily because we wanted to do that traffic and infrastructure analysis to bring it up to the same level as what the Balt Creek plant had. Um you know that's been a few years since that's been done but essentially kind of bring it up to the same level.

Thank you for that that uh input. Um, you know, for me, especially when we're looking at a 20 20 year horizon on this, it feels like, and maybe we're kind of at the point right now we're already looking at fall, but it feels like these two things may have been may have been unable or may still be unable to be uh unlin from each other if it would get that basalt creek going a little bit faster. Um, again, I don't know about, you know, if if we're at that point right now or not, but um just thoughts on that. So, thank you. Yeah, I can jump in as well. Well, sorry, Alex. Do you want to continue your comment? Go ahead. No, go ahead.

In addition to what Alex shared, which is all 100% true. I don't know that there's any I can't think of any benefit to separating this out. I don't think that including this area and bringing it up to speed with the rest of Basalt Creek is um a diversion of resources or staff time or energy in Basalt Creek proper, if you want to think of it in those terms. Um we in in the context of a previous conversation had talked about well maybe this area greater Basalt Creek that is is a good candidate for an urban renewal area for example. Um when we get to that point we would talk about is West Railroad included in that or not. But I think this sets the stage from a policy standpoint to be able to facilitate development if it wanted to occur. it doesn't distract us in any way or divert resources. Um, West Railroad is, I would agree, as you described it, kind of back burner long term. At the same time, it's a little bit unique in that there are large flat aggregated areas um that depending on the circumstances, you know, if the right combination of willing seller, willing buyer came around, there could be a scenario where it does develop sooner than we think. I don't know that that's likely, but it's possible. And if that were to happen, we want to make sure we have our ducks in a row.

That makes sense. Thank you. Yeah. I just add one last thing to that. Excuse me. If West Rail Road were to be set aside, we couldn't get Basalt Creek here any faster than we already have it on the schedule just for the code development that we're actively working on right now. So, I mean, we'd still end up in what we right now look at uh as October. All right. That's what that's what I was looking for. As long as I don't want to see this slowing down Balt Creek. So, no, I don't I don't think it is. It definitely is. We couldn't speed it up if we dropped West Railroad, right? Or set it aside right now. So, yeah. Councelor Skull,

I I would agree with uh councelor Cunningham in terms of phasing. I can see, you know, uh in we worked on the I worked on this with the planning commission when I was on the planning commission understanding how this is getting phased in. So I totally agree with that. Uh question I the questions I have and Matt you and I may have already had these discussions. I don't really remember but I think we did. You I'm concerned about the transportation to and fro even if you have the stuff u if you if you have the other areas developed to the east uh you know the transportation going through uh uh Grap Road there uh with the railroad crossing. I actually think I can answer Council Cunningham's question a little bit there is that in my time traveling back and forth working at Tolatin for 10 or 15 years, uh I think I saw two dozen truck accidents where somebody tried to stuff a truck under the bridge. And so now a lot of trucks that work on the south side have to go through town here to get access to the to those businesses that are on the south side of that bridge. So I agree with the fact that uh that bridge is it it just needs to be reworked and the overall height needs to be raised so that you know the trucks can get all trucks can get full access. Uh and I think that's critical to the Grahams Ferry road. Is there an estimate in term reading through the report there it said this would be highly expensive to do. Is there an estimate in terms of cost and who's responsible for that? because I think the last time we talked about it, that property, that property or that area needed to be annexed. I could be wrong, but I somewhat remember a discussion about that.

Yeah. So, the the current price tag is about $35 million. Okay. It's a significant uh cost. We do have dollars allocated in the Coffee Creek urban renewal plan for sort of like the design and um refinement phase of this but for not for hard construction. Who pays for it? I think the answer to that is it depends. You know, if development were occurring in this area, then a portion of those costs could probably be exacted from development. If that if West Railroad is not developing, it likely is a city project, a capital project.

Okay. And then secondary to that with the train track running right through right down the boundary uh of the of the development the west side on yeah the trains on the east side and and it borders the west of the other developments. Um and again I think we may have had this discussion. Are there opportunities for uh spur rails to come off of that so you we can so the businesses there have an opportunity to load or unload freight?

Okay. So we we've had a number of conversations with um the railroad. This is an interesting stretch of track in that it is ODOT rightway but operated by Portland and Western which is a subsidiary of yet another railroad operator. Um to answer your question, theoretically that opportunity is there. Whether or not this area would attract that type of user is dubious. Um, you know, lots of times the the businesses that attract a rail spur or a siding, for example, tend to be like extraction type businesses where they're extracting resources and loading and shipping it off. The we don't see that as likely in in this location. And so the chances of someone manufacturing something at that scale that they need to then put on a train and ship out just doesn't seem likely. So, it's possible. and the railroad is open to it. In fact, they're that's actually what motivates them to be supportive of this area as they see it as potential business development opportunity. I don't know that that's a realistic expectation, but the opportunity exists if it's desired.

Thank you, Councelor Chevlin.

Thank you. Um, in answer to your question and the pause here, I believe you did a very nice job of combining the two concepts into the preferred concept. The first concept being the tonkan uh environment and the second being manufacturing and industry. I just want to stress and this is mentioned in the report that we make sure that we are really developing. you used the term in the beginning, I think it was your first slide, developable land. And to me, that's that's so important that we get those family wage jobs in there. And so finding that balance between uh keeping the green space and um having the developable land, we need to make sure we don't keep green space that is at the at the expense of not having the the jobs basically. So I believe there can be a balance. It's a nice the way I envision it, it' be a very nice balance,

but um green is good, but so are jobs. Jobs are probably more important, but preserving particularly the Tonkan Trail because of its history here is is primary. And so it it looks nice to be able to to keep that, but jobs have to be number one. And then maybe the trails 1A or 1B, but anyhow, just that. But I think I believe that you did a nice job combining the two and I believe that our council as a whole can get behind it just as we had in our discussion in October. Um we we really seem to be uh all in agreement on how important it would be is to as to develop this area and so um I'm excited about it. Thank you.

Thank you, Council President Barry.

Thank you. Um, I also appreciate your report. I think you did a really good job coming back um after listening to the council and the planning commission and coming up with the preferred concept. I really like um I think it's really important to have that long-term vision and um I like the questions that the other counselors brought up about is this going to delay the Basalt Creek um development, but I think it's really important to have that whole vision. Um I I like the recreation aspect of it. Um jobs are really really important though, but I think you did a great job. thought there was a lot of information here. Um, and I'm excited to keep moving forward with this. So, thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. And I concur. So, with that, you have everything. Excellent. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Thank you.

Next up, emergency declaration process. All right. Good evening. Let me bring this up here. Martin Montalvo, public works operations manager. And Kimmy, you might have to walk me through. I'm sharing screen. What else I have to do? just minimiz the best. Uh public works operations manager and the city's de facto emergency manager. So last December, we brought to council the revised 5-year emergency operations plan. And at that meeting, we mentioned that we were going to come back at a later work session to go over the process of emergency declaration. Um we thought April was timely as we're getting ready to go into the summer season and uh with the amount of heat that we're getting, fire season coming up, we said this is a good opportunity, so let's take a shot at it. Now, um, what I'm going to go over with you is just the city's general process as it's outlined within, um, our administrative code and with the emergency operations plan as to the process of declaring an emergency, uh, the responsibilities of declaring an emergency and the roles for council and the roles for staff. So, essentially, the purpose of declaring an emergency is for us to have the legal protections that were needed as a community for us to be able to effectively respond to um, the emergency at hand. uh to help uh establish civil authority and grant us

certain powers and authorities for procurement um for contracting for responding and for partnering um during that state of emergency. So under resolution 1959 um city council has the right and responsibility to declare a state of emergency when exigent circumstances arise. So who can make that declaration? essentially city council and I'll go through the ex exact steps through here. Um if city council is unable to uh respond in a timely manner then they can defer the decision um through the succession plan that's outlined in resolution 1959. Um but it does need to be brought back to the full council at uh the first available moment. So go through the steps here and for instance city uh the mayor would be the first instance if that's not available it move down the chain um possibly be enacted by any of the other successors but it would have to come back to the full council the next available moment. So here is our line of succession. So the first in the step is the mayor. If mayor is not available council president if council president's not available then the city manager. That's outlined in resolution 1959. It also states in that same resolution if these three part if these three individuals aren't available then it'll go by the line of succession outlined in the emergency operations plan and that states it'll be the assistant city manager of the city manager isn't available um or the designated city assistant city manager in the event that there is not one um and lastly if none of those are available it would go to the emergency management coordinator which in city of Wilsonville is the public works director The declaration will basically state what's the nature of the emergency, what's the boundaries of the emergency and any specific regulations or powers that you uh impose. Um within that

resolution, there are uh enumerated powers that you are available to you. They are not exclusive. So you do have the ability um to do uh powers that are not necessarily noted in the resolution. Um, you also have the ability to limit any of those powers as they're stated within the resolution. Um, anything that um, you do decide to enact, uh, it basically states that, um, you have to make a statement saying that we've used all of our available resources or we expect to expend all of our available resources. if you are seeking to get assistance from the governor or from the federal government. Um I will go into a little more detail with that in a few slides. Um but I do want to kind of state that upfront here. So what are the powers that are enumerated in our um city code? So you can redirect funds for emergency use. So a few of these you're going to see they're outlined in red. These are actual powers that we have put in place in emergency declarations in the last eight years that I have been here. So I wanted to give you examples of some of the powers that we've used and for what purposes. So redirect emergency funds for the emergency use. Um so this allows us to select and direct contractors that I need you to do this and I need you to do it quickly. Um for example, massive ice storm. Need to get someone in here that's got an industrialized wood chipper and can create what we call hog fuel in a quick and timely manner. Suspend standard procurement procedures. Implement mutual aid agreements. So, um, we have an emergency, we can, uh, assist another one of the communities or they can thereby assist us. Uh, turning off gas, water, electricity. We've not done that. Knock on wood. Restrict, regulate, or prohibit vehicular or pedestrian traffic. So, during the ice storms, we did restrict some pedestrian and vehic

vehicular traffic in the context of access to our um, debris collection site. told people you can't come in here if you're not utilizing this for the purpose of dropping off debris. Enter or pass through private property for the purpose of responding to an emergency. Again, back to the ice storm where you're assisting community members with collecting debris, bringing debris um off of private property in some instances um to get it to uh the collection site. Evacuate persons from designated emergency areas. Establish a curfew during spec specified hours and specific locations. Prohibit number of people for gathering. Prohibit possessions of weapons or explosives. Prohibit and restrict the sales of gas or other flammable liquids. Curtail or suspend commercial activity. Prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages. And order such measures as are necessary for the protection of life and property. Um so of these powers, I will tell you I've outlined the ones that we've listed in red that we've done here in the course of my career. There are three others on this list that I'll be happy to go into some other time that we've enacted in the case of hurricanes, landslides or other emergencies. So what's the process for uh declaring an emergency? So first it starts at the local level and I want to be clear on this that declaring a a local emergency and then requesting assistance from the county does not abdicate the responsibility of the city to manage the emergency. You're simply asking the county and any other successor there above them for their assistance. They are not going to come in here and take over the problem for you. They're going to help you deal with the problem. So, it still remains uh a local responsibility. Um from the county, it goes to the county emergency manager or disaster manager for Clakamus County, emergency manager for Washington County, and it has to be reviewed um by their county commission. They then pass it on to the

governor who can um choose to declare a local state of emergency um statewide or localized to a specific county and then that is then passed on to a federal declaration of the president of the United States. Um if all of these things magically align then you have the potential to receive federal assistance from FEMA in the terms of financial assistance. So in the case of the uh ice storm, we made it all the way up to step four here relatively quickly. Um it within two weeks of all of this happening, we were having assistance from FEMA um in the context of of the ice storm. Um and that assistance was available for us for over a year and a half to try and resolve all of the paperwork that was associated um with recouping the funds from the ice storm. Um and if at any one of these steps it does not make it um to the next subsequent step then the opportunity for federal assistance is eliminated. So I just want to make that clear as well. All right. So um disaster declaration process. I spoke about this a little bit earlier but I do want to cover a few other points. Um so you can choose to declare an emergency even if you don't need uh state or uh county or other assistance. what it does as a tool for us emergency managers to say, "Yeah, we're declaring a local state of emergency. I can handle this with my resources, but it would be really helpful if I could get some emergency contracts going. If I could circumvent the standard three quotes in order to issue a contract, I know some contractors who could potentially get in here and help us with a certain situation. Um, and so it's a it's timely for me to have access to those emergency contracts. doesn't mean that I'm requesting assistance from the county or any other agency. It's a tool that's in your toolbox that allows us to

respond a little bit sooner. Okay? So, I did want to point that out. Um, so you can also request a declaration. Um, and it be processed through uh county emergency management up to the state level. Um, but you don't necessarily have to request assistance from them. um they have it for their files, they have it there for their records, and then they're helping you with any assistance that may be subsequently needed further down the line. Um so if there's uh something that occurs where they need some sort of legal documentation at a later date, the county say, "Yep, so we did receive this. We did not advance it up to the state level. It wasn't warranted." But you've gone through the process and you made them aware. And then the last thing, um, and I mentioned this earlier, just because you're, uh, declaring an emergency or, um, advancing it over to the county does not mean that you're surrendering responsibility or authority. So, you have the responsibility and even though other agencies may uh, arrive to assist you, you have the authority to direct them as to how they will assist you. So, when FEMA was here, we did request assistance and we told them this is what we are looking for assistance for. uh it wasn't for them to come in and boss hog the situation and tell us this is what we're going to do and and you the city have to comply with what we're laying down for you. That's not how it works. Okay. All right. So, you also have the ability to enter in agreements with other public agencies or private agencies to use their resources. So, this is an important one. Um, and I've got sounds like a very um very dower statement in here, but commandeering is the easiest way to kind of refer to this. So, let's say I've got a situation where I need a backhoe and I need it like now. Um, it's for the purpose of uh maintaining life and safety and I know a contractor who has a

backhoe that's immediately adjacent to the situation through the emergency powers. You could use that to direct um staff to come into your vehicles, equipment, resources for the purpose of responding to the emergency. Have I ever done that? No. Do I know any other emergency manager that has ever done that? No. But it is a possibility. It's something you could consider. The other thing the emergency declaration does, it gives you the power to also um direct other agencies and volunteers. So you could ex uh request assistance or solicit assistance from community members and direct them um as volunteers for your organization. Um that does have some implications for us as a community because there are legal liabilities. Once you do start utilizing volunteers in certain practices and if you did want to pursue that, we'd want to make sure that it's covered within your emergency declaration. Okay. Um lastly, if you do commandeer any property or um assets, uh the owner is entitled to reasonable compensation. So it's not like I'm going to commandeer it's not TV where you're going to come and deer a truck and say I'm going to take this away and not compensate them uh fairly. So uh we would be working through the process of compensating them for whatever we utilize. All right. So what's the position of the city council in the state of an emergency? So this is our uh structure as outlined with the emergency operations plan. At the very top is the incident commander. In most instances, this is going to be the city manager and then directly adjacent to them but not attached by any line is the policy group. That's city council. So in the policy group would be the five of you. City manager would be facilitating discussions. Legal would more than likely be there providing you legal guidance, but you wouldn't necessarily be part of what we call the emergency operations structure. Um, several reasons for this. If the five of you show up and do the EOC, it's a public meeting. So now I have to open that up to the entire public. I will

tell you from operating in many EOCC's, you don't want to see how the sausage is made. So, we'd like to keep you out of that situation, allow staff to be creative, to have the possibility of making mistakes without repercussions, and bring you solutions through the city manager and through the city attorney as to what are your goals as a council for how you want us to respond to this situation. So, for instance, ice storm hits, it's Friday night, it's late, it's 2:30 in the morning, trees coming down everywhere. We reached out to city manager. They reached out to our policy group saying, "What are the goals?" Goals are maintain life and safety, keep the roads open, and by the way, figure out a way to deal with all this debris. That's what city council outlined for us as goals for the ice storm. Staff came up with solutions. Staff developed what we call strategies and tactics for how we're going to address the goals that have been outlined by city council and the policy group. That's all done behind the scenes through the structure. Um, so city council and the policy group, what what do we ask you to do? So serve as a policy group. You're going to establish the author the authority for us to function in the EO EOC through the city resolution through that uh 1959. Um, you're going to adopt the emergency operations plan that you did in uh December that basically outlines how we will react. uh you'll declare a local state of emergency and provide support to the incident commander um and then lies with the Clackamus County and Washington County uh counterparts. You'll also be liazing with our community members and uh leazing with our public information officer to keep our community members informed as to what we are doing to respond to the emergency. Um, again, trying to keep you out of the EOC, not trying to hide anything, but I also

want to make sure that we're able to react um, quickly and um, expeditiously to the actual situation. Um, for the members of staff, so we fall into your standard IC structure. So there'll be the command staff, which is city manager, legal, few others, and then what we like to refer to as the flop, which is finance and logistics, operations, and planning. All of those are outlined within our EOP, and who in staff um will be serving in those respective roles. And then the last thing is time limits. So emergency can't uh persist forever. Um, you do have to state within the emergency how or the emergency declaration how long you intend to leave that in place. At any time you can extend that timeline. Um, or you can uh terminate the state of emergency early. Um, staff will be advising you as to, you know, what we feel is appropriate, what we think we need in terms of legal coverage for um, responding to the emergency. Um, but you do have that option as to when in the uh, state of emergency terminates. um whatever you decide should be uh communicated to the public um through the local media. That is part of the federal requirement that you do have to advise um the general public as to what your intent is. And with that, I've tried to make this painful and I've used less than 30. So if you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them for you.

Councelor Chevlin, thank you very much. I love this stuff. I worked it a lot in my career. Um, my question has to do with water usage. Okay. I had the opportunity to represent the city at a meeting of the French Prairie Forum last week where the topic of emergency management came up. Uh, in particular, we discussed this summer the possibility of having to curtail water usage. Now, I'm not talking about potable water, although we could go in that direction. I'm talking about landscape use. Um, this is hypothetical discussion.

Hypothetical discussion. So with the rainfall, the snow pack being what it's been this year, the hypothetical discussion was around the possibility of asking citizens of our city uh to curtail water usage uh particularly landscape usage and washing cars etc. Um and of course since our water comes from the Wamtt River for those purposes um who would would that rise to a level of a needing to declare an emergency? Is that a soft emergency?

Um, and who would do that since the river runs through so different counties and different cities? Would that come from the county? Would it come from the state? Would it come from um someone else? Anyhow, just curious as to would that rise to the level of an emergency decision so that the city or all the cities that would be affected could mandate that decision. Um certainly we're probably not going to have a water usage uh compliance officer going around but uh anyhow just we didn't really have an answer to that in our discussion at the meeting. I wonder what your take would be on it.

Sure. Um there's a lot of variables that come into play with that. Um so let's start at the top if it's mandated by the state. So there actually is someone at state level. It's called the water master. It's great title, great job. Um and that person is responsible for regulating permitted water usage throughout the state. Water master can call down to any district and tell them you have to curtail water based on the circumstances that that are occurring within their region. Um the water providers in the Clackamit River are actually paying very close attention to this um because they are concerned about the amount of snowpack. It's not so much a concern for us. Um the WAMIT comes from a completely different source. Volume of water is significantly larger. Um but the water master could call down and do a mandatory curtailment. um if they did uh or if the district that oversees that water district makes the decision we're going to do a voluntary curtailment um they have a couple ways to do it. Um first within our just standard utility plans we have a curtailment uh plan that allows us to enact curtailments based on certain circumstances. Let's say the water plant goes down for whatever reason. Knock on wood. Um, we could issue a local curtailment that says we need everyone to stop irrigation for a set period of time so that we have enough water for life and safety, for fire flow, and to make the repairs. Um, or it could come down from the state saying you have to do it for for uh just water shortage reasons. Um, you could do it just through uh enactment of our um water curtailment plan that's approved by the state. You could you do it in a state of emergency? Yes. It's really going to be dependent on the situation. If we would come back with a recommendation is to should probably enact a local state of emergency for the purpose of this curtailment. If it was something as I stated earlier mechanical issue that I had to address, I'd

probably get taken care of in 24 to 48 hours. Probably not. If it's going to be uh states mandating a curtailment that's going to last through the course of the summer, more than likely we give you a recommendation to enact a local state of emergency specific to that period of time and that situation. Yep. Council Council President Barry,

thank you for your report. I being a planner, I love hearing about plans and knowing that there's an emergency plan that the city has in place gives me a sense of confidence and a sense of security. So, thank you for sharing that with us. Um, you talked about the benefits of having uh declare a state of an emergency that we can get funding and u speed up some of our actions. But are there any drawbacks? Oh gosh, the stress that it induces to me. Uh other than that, um there are not that that I would say any legal drawbacks. Um the the local state of emergency is really um the concept of is to provide you as an elected body and us as a community certain protections to do things above and beyond what we normally would do to address an emergency. So, I could not tell you off the top of my head any specific drawbacks. I can't say that I've experienced any and I have been in part of more states of emergency than I care to talk about.

Can I do one follow-up question? Yeah. Um, so can you also speak briefly about our public works building that we have for as an emergency operations center?

Sure. Um, public works building. It was constructed two and a half years ago. Um it is the uh designated um emergency operations center for the city. Um it's our backup. So the primary is here. Um the backup is over at um the Bober work complex. It's a seismically reinforced class 4 building. So it should be able to sustain a significant seismic event. Few few excuse me a few of the doors might be a little bit a jar but other than that um should be fully functional. It also has the redundant servers and communication systems for the entire city um including our uh SCADA system which is how we monitor um our wastewater and our water systems um out in the wild.

Yeah. Councelor Skull, couple technical questions just to go uh just to understand. You said if if there if we do go into a state of emergency and you need to procure services, you do not have to go through and get three or four quotes or anything of that sort, you you have the authority to go sole source. We do. If you if you grant that power in the state of emergency,

now you could state limitations on to uh as to how I I do that. You can set monetary limits that say, you know, you can do sole source procurement for emergency purposes up to x amount of dollars or for set specific task or activities. Um, you kind of get to set the reinss and the boundaries. Um, in most instances, we ask you to, you know, uh, wave the standard procurement rules because I'm not going to be able to tell you 100% of the time as to this is what I think it's going to cost or this is what I think it's going to take.

When you're leading to my second question, is there a special contract for that that kind of leads you to just what you say, but also to cover the hazard level of liabilities for the contractor? So, we would still follow our normal procurement rules in terms of liability, insurance coverages that the contractor would have to be able to provide for us to get the contract. The only thing we'd be waving is my responsibility to get three competitive quotes. Gotcha. So, we're not relieving ourselves of any liability by hiring a third party. Um, you're just giving me an opportunity to be a little bit more expeditious as to how I do that.

Okay. Last question. Um, and if if something happens and you need to communicate with the council, if you want to keep us out of the kitchen, how do you communicate with us? Through that young lady right there. Oh, okay. Yeah. So, the intent is Let the record reflect the city man.

Apologize. Gestures don't come through the city manager. Um, so the intent is, um, and I I'll tell you, I I've served in a lot of EOCC's, both state, federal, um, getting ready to go do FIFA for two weeks for the federal government. Um, and there's a lot of stuff that happens in the EOC. It's chaotic at times depending on the situation. There's a lot of dialogue, but there's a lot of great solutions that come to it and a lot of great options. And the intent is that we bring great solutions, great options to uh the incident commander and then they in turn present them to you as to this is what we think we're going to do. Um and then as a group you guys would say, "Yeah, that meets our goal." You don't necessarily need to say, "Yeah, I don't like this one over that one." Is the options you've presented to me meet the goals that we outlined for you to set for this community. So clear the roads, get the debris off the roads, and figure out what you're going to do for this specific event.

Thank you, Councelor Cunningham. Y going back to the question earlier about any of the drawbacks of the state of emergency. I think that it it's uh pertinent to just mention that um you know, some of the things that you you you put up there uh you know, they would be suspensions of individual rights. And so I think that would be probably the only thing that would come to mind um as as we're trying to solve a problem. But there would be you know there is that balance of of you know individual rights versus uh solving a problem. So that's one thing I'd add to that.

Um and then beyond that you know just uh listening to your presentation today and and the the one before um you know having some conversations with you uh when I first came on board um all the training and things that you've kind of outlined tonight. you know, I think we're lucky to have you uh on staff and as our our emergency management coordinator. Um I don't I don't know that we could get anybody better. So, uh thank you for being here with us and and serving our city.

Appreciate that. Thank you so much. Any other questions? All right. I wish you all the best. Thank you. services review. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Amanda Guile Henman, city attorney. Um, and also in our audience tonight is Raina Bower from the Peer Company. I know it's um a little abnormal, but if I would invite council, if you do have specific questions about how the program's run and you want to invite Raina up here to discuss any of that, I'm sure she would love to share about the program.

Come on up.

Let's just get it over. So tonight we're going to be doing a review of peer support services that the city has contracted with the pier company to provide within the city limits. Um for tonight's discussion um I'm going to do a brief overview and background of how we got here. Um then we'll do the review of the peer support services and then talk about next steps. So, by way of background, um, according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, since 1999, um, through 2022, reportedly se over 700,000 people have died from an opioid overdose, both from deaths involving prescriptions and illegal opioids. The first wave identified of the opioid related deaths began with increased prescriptions of opioids in the 1990s, as described by the US Department of Health and Human Services. This first wave is attributable to pharmaceutical companies reassuring the medical community that patients would not become addicted to opioid painkillers, pain relievers, and health care providers began prescribing them in greater rates. Many opioid manufacturers, distributors, and and other parties have been sued for their roles in causing or contributing to this opioid crisis. Settlements were negotiated and conditioned on a high percentage of states and localities of a certain size to agree to the settlements and release future claims from the settling parties. Most jurisdictions in Oregon um including the city of Wilsonville agreed to these settlements. The city decided to explore whether a potential beneficial use of the o opioid settlement funds that it received would be through to establish a locally based mental health and substance use peer support specialist. The Oregon Health Authority defines a peer support specialist as an individual providing services to another individual who shares a similar life experience with the peer support specialist. During its 2025 council goal setting,

the council adopted goal 2, public safety. And within that goal, strategy 2.6 to develop a pilot program for a contracted peer support specialist funded through funds received by the city through the settlements of the National Opioid Litigation. At its June 16, 2025 council meeting, the council adopted resolution number 3202 to initiate this program for peer support services. So in July of 2025, the city contracted with the peer company to provide peer support services and the peer company began its recruitment process for this peer support specialist. Councelor Cunningham was part of the interview panel for that recruitment. In December or excuse me, in October, peer support specialist Danielle Cruz was hired and onboarded. Danielle has office space uh within Wilsonville Community Sharing both when um Wilsonville Community Sharing was at Park Tech and also as it's moving over to the Voya comp complex. And although Danielle does have this office space, she spends a significant time in the community um places like the library or just out and about meeting people where they're at. She works closely with Clakammus County's behavioral health clinician who works within the Wilsonville Police Department. Um, of the reports that so since Danielle started in October, there's been two quarterly reports. They're in your council packet. So far, uh, 13 in unique individuals have been served and I think another referral is happening this evening. Um, the majority of them are unhoused. There's also within those reports demonstrations of connections to um housing and treatment for the for individuals and reports of positive impacts both from individuals who have um utilized the peer support services, city staff and community partners. And one thing that I really wanted to highlight too is just how what a great um at least in my personal experience,

what a great um program this has been. So even when Gina or I get a report of, you know, there's something going on with an individual, we're not quite sure, um the peer company, not just Danielle, but Jeff, Raina, they are extremely responsive. they'll get on the phone, talk about what are the options, what are the goals, what are we trying to achieve here, where are maybe there's some connections to um services that you know Wilsonville doesn't have that maybe are outside this outside the city that they're aware of because they work in the entire region. Um and in particular uh I know that you got the letter from Brenda. She was extremely appreciative of the peer support services as a soft handoff from people who she interacted with maybe in crisis who then needed some more long-term support that she's not capable of providing and that's really not within her job description. Now that this um that position has been trans transferred over to Steve Ovin, thank you. Um Steve has worked very closely with the pure company and um uh and so it's been a really nice seamless transa transition over into having our new behavioral health clinician here as well. um Wilsonville Community Sharing and Heart of the City have both also really expressed um for them when when they're interacting with an individual and maybe they're not able to provide services or you know again just that like longer term helping hand uh Danielle has been a real asset for them and also with the relocation of of Wilsonville Community Sharing. It's right by Heart of the City. So, so there's some really good synergy going on with Danielle Wilsonville Community Sharing and Heart of the City and their location. So, the settlement funds um that we received, especially because we started this a little bit late. It's only been about six months. Um we have sufficient funds for one additional year and I

actually just got an email today that um Albertson's is uh we are they're finalizing their um opioid settlement. So, there's still settlement funds that are coming in. Um so we do have sufficient funds for one additional year. It is um in the budget in the um draft budget right now for the to continue the services for that year. Thereafter we will have to look for other resources or partnerships. We have been reaching out to the county and to our adjacent communities um about whether there's an opportunity to continue this work maybe on a on a larger scale, especially for us communities that are a little bit on the outskirts of the county where maybe it's takes longer for those county resources to get to us that having a person here locally is a real asset. Um, so with that, that's what we have tonight for um to present to you all, but either one of us are happy to answer any questions that you have.

Councelor Chevlin, thank you and welcome aboard. May I call you Danielle? This is Raina. Oh, Raina, I'm sorry. That's Raina. Thank you. Anyhow, it's great to have you. I'm curious, is is the job defined, is it 20 hour a week, 40hour week? 40.

40, I'll bet. and you probably work over that, I'm sure, at times, too. Um, I just wanted to welcome you aboard. This is a very near and dear to my heart um effort as a retired nurse. I work with many atrisisk families that um did not have this type of opportunity. I've been retired for a number of years now. So, I'm just warmed that we have this um this service and I'm happy to make sure that it continues this year and however many other years that we need it. So, thank you. Thank you, councelor. Councelor Skull,

I'm new to the process. I've just been on the council for five or six months, so I'm not really sure what goes on here. So, could I get a a very very high level explanation of how you engage with the community and how things are funded and yeah, you know, where you you know, how you work your way through the process.

Yeah. So, the Pure Company, um, sorry, uh, so my name is Raina. Um, I'm also a person, I'm one of the directors at the Pier Company. I'm also a person with lived experience with both mental health and addiction. Um, and yeah, the peer companies, we do a lot of things. We're in a lot of areas in the Tri County, but we really only do one thing, and that's peer support. So, really meeting people where they're at. Um we know that all people can and do recover if given the opportunity. Um I think one of the things that we really focus on person directed planning so the whole person. So if the person's not ready or in pre-contemplation maybe to get sober or thinking about as uh Amanda talked about all the fentanyl and the overdose we make sure that people have Narcan provide harm reduction. um you know if uh getting people we we are the the we bridge gaps to um maybe people are looking for housing or they wanting to get get into residential treatment kind of bridging that gap from point A to point B. I think something beautiful that has happened since we came to Wilsonville is Danielle, you know, she was slow to receive referrals from the county and so she really went out into the found where the houseless folks were at and was able to kind of go in there and build connections with people and make sure everybody in those camps had Narcans. So, um I mean I think our main goal is to keep people alive and then and then uh everybody in our organization all the way from our boot our line staff all the way up to our board of directors we all identify with having lived experience um with both mental health and ex and addiction. So it's actually actually the criteria to work for our organization. Um I've been with the peer company for seven years

getting ready to go out on sabbatical. I was the 41st employee and I think we're um up over 190 employees now. Uh we also uh you know we have a a center downtown Portland, the behavioral health resource center. Um I don't know if you've all have heard of it, the BHRC, which is a drop in for folks um some most of some of our most vulnerable population. Um uh is that does that does that answer your question? Yes.

Yeah. And for example, one of the things that Danielle does and why um she works um in the space at Wilsonville Community Sharing is she'll go Wilsonville Community Sharing does our food pantry and she'll she'll go shopping with people or she'll connect with people as they're there for food pantry and just and it's just getting to know them, talking with them, building that rapport and that relationship. Um, so some of it is referrals like the library, you know, calling up Brenda and Brenda and now Steve and, you know, having Danielle come along or but a lot of times it's Danielle getting out into the community and just talking with people through different organizations. Um, and so, so while like while Gina and I or you know, city staff may know may know a person like we know their name, we know what kind of generally where they might be in the community, she knows them

better. And um, and I think that that is important when especially when we are talking about, you know, finding solutions for people. It's it's actually not finding solutions for people. It's helping people find their find their solutions. And that's really what Pure Support has the capacity to do. City staff and our health behavioral health clinician do not have the capacity or the skill set for that type of work.

Yeah, I thank you, Amanda. And I think the the heartbeat of peer support is again I think just walking alongside somebody with no hidden agenda. And there's something magical that happens when when um a relationship is built on just what does the human want to do, you know? And then again, all of our staff um have lived experience, so they're able to share their journey um and and navigating systems and how sometimes we, you know, either we're working with a pearl officer or maybe a DHS worker or we're trying to get sober and we and it's not linear, right? And so peer support specialists can really share their experience. Um yeah, navigating the resources and and and and again it's it's really personed planning. So whatever the human wants um rather than

Yeah, that's pretty pretty cool. I have family down in the southeast and uh uh and friends down there and you know some of them have these types of problems and everything and uh you know I've learned over the years they have nowhere to go there. there, you know, a lot of cities, a lot of towns do not have this kind of support. So, I think it's great. Thank you.

I met with a staff member today and and uh they had met with a individual who was getting ready to do outpatient for six months and you know, we provide bus passes to folks if they needed honored citizen cards. Um, and the peer support specialist sat down with the person and they really didn't know how to access try the the uh the app. And so they sat down and they got it on the phone and they were and then the peer support specialist parked their car at the person's house and was going to ride the bus with the person to treatment to try to be self-sufficient because we can't transport for six months. So I thought that was I thought that was a really good story. Cool. Thank you. Yeah, councelor Cunningham.

Thank you Raina for joining us today. Um and thank you Amanda for the presentation. Um, you know, when I when I first opened my packet and I I I looked at this and started going through it, I saw the the number of of people listed on the actual document and report and I went 13 people in six months. That doesn't seem very big. And so my skepticism kicked off and uh I have trust issues. But um so my skepticism kind of kicked off, but the first thing I did was I got a hold of Lee Crosby over at Wilsonville Community Sharing and I had a really good conversation with her and um I said, "Hey, tell me more." So these numbers, they're not they're not the most impressive thing in the world, but tell me more. And uh she detailed so many parts of what Danielle does that don't make it into a black and white report and don't make it into these numbers. Uh when you say 13, her the number of people that she's actually talked to are are are multiples above that. Uh she talked about how um you know Danielle having that office there when um you know when when folks are in the lobby and um it appears that somebody needs help or somebody's in distress or somebody's having a mental crisis or might be on drugs and um you know their behaviors might be becoming problematic and creating an issue. uh she's very very quick and very does a very uh good job of just getting right out there and uh addressing the person and having a conversation with them um and keeping things, you know, running a lot more smoothly and having that personal contact with people. And you kind of mentioned it before just, you know, how difficult it is to bridge that gap with somebody. If uh you know, if one of our police officers walks in up to one of these people, well, now the government just walked up to the person. It's not a person- on-person contact. And to bridge that gap, to to get past the badge and the uniform and the gun

belt and all that stuff is a monumental task. And I've known a lot of cops that are really, really good at it. And I've known a lot of cops who are absolutely terrible at it. And they'll make the situation worse if you put them in it. And um from what I heard from speaking with with Lee, uh Danielle is obviously somebody who has the gift to be able to talk to people and meet them where they're at and uh help them out. Um, so, you know, black and white numbers on this report that was, you know, um, that's one thing, but I also know from from my, you know, experience as a as a police officer, not every not everything you do on a shift is is stated. It's not a stat. It's not a moving violation or an arrest or a report or anything like that. The the amount of things that you do in the in between are immeasurable. So, um, I was really happy to, uh, you know, hear more directly from from Lee and, um, you know, I'm really I'm really happy with this program because I think it's the right size for our community. Um, we have this resource. We have a person who's able to go and meet people in the community, uh, and get them to the resources that are available in the area. Um, and so, uh, I'm really happy with that. Um, I did have a couple questions though, um, because I know that, you know, certain things are raise questions for people when they see them and for myself. So, um, the report it mentions harm reduction. So, what exactly what what type of harm reduction are we talking about?

Yeah. So those are really conversations um and offering people Narcan or getting people connected to medicationass assisted treatment if they so wish. Um that would be benorphine nowone. Um so again just bridging that gap. Um, also, um, I think, yeah, I think it's really just having the conversations. Um, offering people Narcan, like I said, making sure that if they're going out and somebody in their encampment wants Narcan, that the that the whole that the entire encampment had has Narcan. Um, and then, uh, I think getting people to, um, detox. Danielle's transported people to detox. Um, yeah, I think that's it.

So, just clarifying, does does that include any um providing any sort of um paraphernalia for elicit drug use? We don't we don't provide paraphernalia.

Great. Um, and then my second thing, um, I actually had a personal touch point, um, with somebody in crisis in the community and and our law enforcement responded to it. And, uh, I was a little disappointed because, um, this resource didn't come up during the the contact, um, with the person or with the the family member that was there. And so I think we might have a little bit more work to do there of um figuring out how to get our deputies um really pushing this resource, offering it to people. Um obviously they can make their own referrals. I'm hoping

Yeah, I think I uh you know I think that's always our commitment is just how can we be more innovative. Um we also have a program in Clackamus County. It's called our opioid overdose survivor program. Um and what we did there was um you know we went and presented to um Clacamus County Sheriff all the shifts. So we were at the graveyard shift, we were at the night shift, we were at the day shift. Um, and then we had uh, you know, for our night shift, I remember when I was working in the program, our night shift, there was a night shift officer and she would just write on a little napkin where the person was underneath the Cellwood Bridge and then she would circle it and have little stick figures with a blue bike and that's how we knew where to find them. So, um, happy to talk about that with Amanda and and I think Jeff and Steve are already talking about they want to do some, uh, presentations and so everybody has the referral because Danielle has capacity. I mean, we think that I mean, sometimes folks can have some of our staff have 20 people on their case load and they can't take anymore and we have to put a re a hold on referrals. And sometimes people can have 50 on their case load and maybe people aren't, you know, they're not really meeting. We're providing harm reduction. We're providing bus passes. People aren't, you know, they're in that pre-contemplation stage. And so, we really lean into staff. Um, but I think Danielle has absolutely more capacity on her case load. Um, and we love presenting peer services. We think peer services save lives. So, anywhere that we can be in this community, we would show up.

Yeah. And they I mean, they definitely do save lives. And um I guess, you know, and and sometimes it's not even having somebody necessarily on a case load. times it's just being able to have a conversation with somebody who has a loved one who's, you know, struggling and being able to say, "Hey, you know, I'm here if you need me." Um, and that obvious often times helps people, but also here's a few phone numbers that you can go out and and and chase down. Um, you know, obviously if you're talking to the person in crisis, they're going to need more help. But if you have a family member, oftentimes if you can kind of offload that work to them, that's uh

it it helps keep that that case load down for um and and but also continues the solution going. So yeah, I think if we could have um I would love to see our our local law enforcement officers just really knowing about it, knowing how to access it. if there was um you know for me when when I was out on the road I would have a a file and it would have all my documents that I had to you know fill out for different types of situations but it also had the resource brochures and things like that. So if it was appropriate I could pull those and I could hand them to people and they would have those. Um, and sometimes sometimes you'll talk to people too who are in the middle of crisis and they're not ready for it and you hand them that brochure and and you hope that when you know that next day or when they they sober up that um they look at it and go, "Okay, I don't want to do that again, but here's here's a path."

So, anything like that, I think, is just so valuable to really reinforcing this program and strengthening it and and um just doing the best that we possibly can for the people in our community. Yeah, we'll definitely talk with the chief about um maybe getting in for a presentation and and Danielle does have cards, business cards, so we can also make them available to the city council and of course obviously the police department. So, and we have, you know, we have that capability also to have flyers with the QR code that go straight to this. So, we do we have a lot of we're pretty crafty.

Great. Thank you so much, Council President Barry. Um, yeah, thank you for the presentation and I'm really really pleased that the city uh was able to receive funds and um connect up with the peer uh support group. Um, I'm I I know we're getting uh close to the end of our allotted time for this discussion, but I'd love to hear a little bit more about the logistics. Um, is she working Monday through Friday? I mean this is a problem that's 24/7. So how does that all work?

Yeah, she is working Monday through Friday. Sometimes uh she works 9 to 4, no 9 to5 or 8 to 4, I can't remember. Um, but I think um just really letting folks know when she's meeting with somebody, letting letting them know the days and hours that she works because and we have them we have staff turn off their phone when they're at the end of their shift because people will get burned out and we really want to protect our staff. But um making sure that people have the crisis line and the warm line. And then in this county specifically, I know there was a couple of times we had some people in crisis and so Danielle talked to Jeff and she was able to keep her phone on that night and we just ask ask staff to flex or um I will step in because I don't work Monday through Friday. um and offer that additional support, but making sure that people have the crisis line number um the warmline number. Um

and I would say too if if there's anything where where we can sort of anticipate that there might be a need, I know Danielle has gotten clearance to um adjust her schedule. So, I believe there was um there's been a few days where she's come in a little bit early. So, she is can be out in our parking lot before the 7:00 a.m. um time period is up and so she can make those connections, right? It's not necessarily that there's a specific issue, it's that she wants to meet people and have a conversation. So, she's been able to make those adjustments if if there's something that we can anticipate that where she can change her schedule.

Absolutely. We just ask folks because we don't we can't pay overtime. Our budget budgets don't allow it, but we really flex time. So, especially if somebody's wanting to get to a late night meeting of Narcotics Anonymous or Alcoholics, whatever the case may be and it's a late night, then they can either come in later the next day or, you know, or at the end of the week. So, we're pretty flexible in that area. But again, if somebody's in crisis, we're we have a team that stands behind us. So, we're making sure people are getting connected if Danielle isn't available. Well, from my thought process, I think it's one of those goals that the council uniformally agreed that was needed and we benefited. I appreciate councelor Cunningham's effort in the beginning. U I think it should continue. I'd love to see it expanded. Um I look forward to discussions on how we come up with the money when things run out. um question that maybe I'm taking as a field. Have we done outreach like going to Rotary or over at the Charbono Country Club to give presentations to educate the community about this resource just to get it out there because that could be a future opportunity from raising funds locally to support the program uh to essentially buy community you know involvement because I think it's an excellent program. Yeah, that's a that's a great suggestion and something that we absolutely can do. And it actually um they're not the same program, but there is a lot of overlap also with our supportive housing services um programs that and funding that we get through the county. So, it probably could be something too that we sort of double up so people know about both programs. Um but yeah, that absolutely we could do that.

Thank you. Excellent presentation. Anything else? Great idea. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. The work session is adjourned at 6:24 p.m. City Council will meet in executive session pursuant to Oregon Revised Statute Section 192 660 subsection 2 paragraph 8, excuse me, paragraph F exempt public records. Members of the public outside of representatives of the news media, please exit council chambers. We will be adjourned for five minutes.

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Will the city recorder please call the role? Councelor Chevlin here. Council President Barry here. Councelor Cunningham here. Councelor Skull here. Mayor O'Neil

here. Please stand and join us for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. City Council President Barry, can I have a motion to approve the following order of agenda? I move to approve the following order of the agenda. Is there a second? Second. The motion's been approved and seconded. All those in favor say I.

I. I. The motion passes. 5.

Okay. Please join me as I give a state of the city address. And council, you're invited to sit over there. Holy cow, a lot of people here. I tried to pass this off to city council president Barry, but she she says I'm stuck doing it. So, good evening and thank you for being here tonight. It is my honor to stand before you once again as your mayor to deliver the state of the city address. Before I begin, I want to recognize several elected leaders who have joined us tonight. First, our city council council president Barry and Carolyn Barry, council president Adam Cunningham, councelor Anne Chevlin, and councelor Sam Skull. And I understood state senator coordin. Oh, there she is. Sorry, my eyes are still adjusting. Thank you, Senator. Uh, and state representative Sue Ricky Smith. And let's see. I see councelor uh uh

Rosenthal from the metro. Thank you for being here. I see uh uh uh Mayor Bummen from uh the uh city of Twaladom. I see former mayor Tim Knap. I was supposed to be given a list. So Oh, there it is. Well, you want to come on up? So, they did this on purpose just to make me sweat. All right. Clackmus County Sheriff's Office here and former Wilson's Oh, I covered that. Washington County Sheriff's Office. Wow. Thank you for coming, guys. Uh, Talon Valley Fire and Rescue and Vice Chair Megan Badal from Westland Wilno School District and Clackman's Community College President Tim Cook. And if I forgot anybody. Ah, he's not even

Oh, Jason. Jason Snyder, the Washington County Commissioner. I apologize. No worries. I was going to let it slide. That's just he would just bring it up in the middle of a meeting and who Ryan Community College Board.

Oh gosh. you're not on the list, but thank you. We'll have to talk about this list next year. So, this month we welcome Gina Troha. Stand up, please. Gina, as our new city manager, the council is fortunate to have selected someone with Gina's depth of experience and commitment to community centered leadership. She brings a thoughtful and steady approach to this work, balancing long-term vision with the daytoday responsibilities of running a city. She has long demonstrated the ability to listen, to build relationships, and to work collaboratively. We're very lucky to have her. Thank you, Gina. I also want to recognize our city attorney, Amanda Galahin. Amanda plays a critical role in the work we do as a council and for the city at large. She provides guidance in difficult moments, helps us navigate complex decisions, and does so with professionalism, integrity, and a steady hand. I deeply respect her judgment and her commitment to this community. And we're fortunate to have her serving Wilsonville. She's hiding in a back. Thank you to Gina, Amanda, and every member of our city staff who make this city work every day. Naming everyone would keep us here all evening. But please know how much your work means to me, this council, and our community. I also want to recognize members of our boards and commissions and the many volunteers who serve in ways both large and small throughout Wilsonville. Your leadership, your service, and your

commitment matter deeply. Thank you. Finally, I want to thank my family. Public service is not something you do alone. It asks a lot of the people who stand beside you every day. There are long nights, this time, and moments when the weight of decisions follows you home. Through it all, my family has been there supporting me, grounding me, and reminding me why this work matters. I love you, and I'm deeply grateful for everything you give so I can do this work. Last year when I delivered my first state of the city as mayor, I spoke about belonging. My belief that Wilsonville should be a place where every person matters, where every family can build a life, where every resident feels the community is truly theirs. It's a simple yet powerful idea that I believe deeply. Because when people feel they belong, a community becomes more than a place to live. It becomes home. And when a place feels like home, people begin thinking about something even more important. The future they want to build together. The future we are all building together. And the future we will one day hand to the next generation. We must ask ourselves what kind of community will we leave to our children and grandchildren. Answering this question regards requires us to step back and look at the everyday moments that define our lives here. The best way to understand Wilsonville is not through a report or a budget document, but by walking through our community.

That is something I do nearly every morning with my dog, Curious George. And given recent comments, he's always on a leash. Had to throw that in there. Those walks through our neighborhoods, parks, and public spaces remind me what we are so fortunate to have. A place where people build rich lives, raising their children, looking out for one another, and where our seniors are honored and respected. Wilsonville spirit reveals itself through observing simple moments. A child riding their bike to school or a family gathering in Memorial Park, the crown jewel of our fabulous park system. Over the past several years, our investments in Memorial Park have continued to build on what makes it so special. From the nature play area and expanded skate park to the dog park, community and pollinator gardens, new restrooms and field lighting with new play equipment near the sports fields on the way. Last year, staff expanded the park disc golf course. now one of the top courses in the region. Our dedicated parks team got creative to make that project happen. This short video details the awardwinning collaboration with the disc golf community.

Disc golf is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. It's thriving in Oregon where park providers are struggling to meet demand for course availability. Wilsonville's only public disc golf course is located beyond the athletic fields at Lower Memorial Park. It was a modest 9-hole course until last year when the city's parks and recreation staff was introduced to Jesse Tomo, a certified disc golf player, advocate, event promoter, course designer, and the owner of Portland retailer All Day Disc Golf. Some local members of our disc golf club wanted to expand the course and suggested getting Jesse involved. Tomato's course design expertise and enthusiasm for the sport match the city's desire to expand the course to 18 holes.

To make advancements happen in disc golf, you definitely have to keep banging away at it and convince people that it's a good idea. The course expansion is 100% donorfunded. Not only did Tomino design the course, he rallied the disc golf community to raise funds and participate in volunteer work parties. Jesse's involvement was absolutely critical. The result of this great collaboration is a new 19-hole disc golf course that has activated an underutilized wooded area within Wilsonville's Signature Park and provided a new destination that can be enjoyed by virtually anyone. Memorial Park disc golf course is one of the busiest courses in the area and that's because it is accessible and fun for disc golfers of all skill levels.

The city of Wilsonville is thrilled to recognize Jesse Tomo as the recipient of the OPA's 2025 private sector partner award. Memorial Park and all that has to offer is an example of how a community vision, staff dedication, and the collaboration that followed delivered a wonderful outcome. Our investment in our park system is a great representation of our values. So too is our emphasis on community events. From long-established events like the Easter egg hunt, party in the park, the annual Christmas tree lighting and harvest festival to new celebrations like the second annual light up Wilsville Manora lighting, Los Padus Pride, Junth Lunar New Year, Celebration of India, and the Ramadan potluck. We seek active enriching lives. We honor families in all their forms. We embrace togetherness and tradition. We celebrate important occasions. We rely on each other. One more example of our values is our library, a place that means a great deal to many families, including my own. Last month, a new four-wall mural was painted in the children's room. This wonderful project, funded by the Wilsville Public Library Foundation and directed by our Arts, Culture, and Heritage Commission and staff, demonstrates the power of collaboration and community involvement. The result is wonderful.

Hi, I'm Julia. I'm a Portland-based muralist, originally from North Carolina. I have been doing art for as long as I could hold a crayon, but never saw this as my full-time career until 2020 when I graduated and started pursuing fine art and then public art full-time. So, this mural was actually inspired by about 452 polls from the children uh that the library staff here ran a bulletin board. So, narrowing a little bit of that down, I still found a really fun way to incorporate a lot of that wander that uh the kids had. And so it'll start off with a dog and cat as they take off from home and journey into Pacific Northwest wonderland. Then it goes into an underwater deep sea scene that then leads to sand and the cooking scene and jungle. And I'm just excited for kids to find the creativity in it and the colors and it just be something that they'll be really quite drawn to. You have to come here because the paintings are fabulous. I love space and I love diamonds.

I like the painting cuz it's beautiful and it has good colors. I like the cat cuz I have a cat at home. This is such a wonderful room and I see how much interaction there is with children and playfulness and curiosity and of course the great room of books and all the stories that they could have at their fingertips. And so I just want to say thank you for the library and the community for trusting me with this project. I'm very excited for the adventure behind me to unravel. What do you think? Strong community does not happen on its own. It requires people willing to step forward and take responsibility for what comes next. Local leadership matters, but it is not about the mayor or members of city council. It is about the community leaders we've had over the decades who have given their heart and soul to this community in so many ways. Those and community organizations such as the Rotary Club, our nonprofits like Wils Community Sharing and Heart of the City, our local businesses, religious institutions, parent groups, and so many others. Many of these leaders, those current and those who have passed, many of them quiet, unsung heroes, have continuously stepped up and made this community a better place. Not only for the Wilsonville we have now, but for the vision of the community that we will leave for future generations.

Because leadership at every level our community matters. As President John F. Kenny once said, "Our task in our time, in our generation, is to hand down unddeminished to those who come after us the rich heritage we have inherited." That's a big responsibility that requires thoughtful decisions about our future. The decisions we make together today will shape Wilsonville for decades to come. Thoughtful leadership means investing in infrastructure that keeps our city strong. It means improving our local roads and transportation systems. It means strengthening and preserving water and storm water systems so the next generation does not inherit problems we chose to ignore. It means finding a way to guide our inevitable growth in a manner that allows us to retain our small town spirit. Informed, deliberate decisionmaking can ensure that we maintain our high quality of life for the next generation. Investing in our future has delivered new returns this year. The reopening of the Beckman Road Corridor and the Beckman Bridge connection has improved mobility and safety across our city as our frog pond neighborhood comes to life. We've continued investing in places where families gather, including a new neighborhood park, which will be opened in Frog Pond West next to the new primary school.

Our commitment to transportation and pedestrian improvements continues. Last year, we were awarded a $6 million competitive grant from the Oregon Department of Transportation to fund the completion, excuse me, the completion of the Beckman Creek Regional Trail. When complete, a child growing up in Frog Pond will be able to ride their bike to their high school without setting foot on a high-speed arterior road. That is the kind of city our community is building. The seismic resilient new 3 milliongal westside reservoir on twos road projects are most pre excuse me let me try that again. The seismicresilient new 3 milliongalon westside reservoir on T's road protects our most precious asset water and adds storage capacity to support future growth. This is what responsible long range planning looks like. Investing in infrastructure that most residents will never see so it is there when needed. Our responsibility does not stop at our city limits. We continue to advocate for the replacement of the bone bridge, one of the most important transportation priorities for our community, our region, and the movement of goods and com goods and commerce across our nation. That work has required persistence, working with state and federal partners, the legislature traveling to DC, and continuing to make the case that Wilsonville's future depends on a transportation system that keeps pace

with our growth. Leadership means not just managing today, but advocating for what comes next. Building a strong city is not only about infrastructure, of course. It is about people. Last year, we launched a peer support initiative to help residents struggling with addiction and mental health concerns connect with the help they need. Next month, we'll celebrate the grand opening of VUA, the new transit orient development at the Wilson Transit Center, a project that reflects the compassion of this community and our shared commitment to helping people build stability in their lives. Voya provides 121 units of housing for those earning 30 to 80% of area median income. creates a permanent home for Wilsville community sharing and creates a welcome center for regional transit users. What began as an idea brought forward by smart director Dwight Basher and city staff has grown into something more. A reflection of this community's values. An example of how thoughtful public leadership grounded in our compassion can truly change lives. I arrived here in Wilsonville in 2017 and uh in doing kind of an assessment of what SMART had in the way of amenities, resources. I ended up at the transit center which turned out to be a very very nice transit center. However, there was a plot of land about 1.4 4 acres to be exact, that had a large mound on it,

dirt mound with plenty of weeds. And that's when the idea hit me that we probably should and could do something better with this uh plot of land.

Putting together an affordable housing project like this is a complex thing to pull off. It required the coordination between a lot of people uh different agencies both at the county and state level providing funding opportunities and other people willing to step up to the plate and share their wisdom and thoughts uh for getting this project off the ground. Uh we were fortunate in that we got a lot of good feedback from our planning commission and city council to really shape this idea and then we were able to take that because we had such a clear vision and get project funding quickly, get a developer who was interested in building it and uh move forward to construction in a pretty fast timeline. When this building started to go up, I decided I wanted to live there. It's close to work, close to, you know, it's it's close to transit. Uh, if I didn't need a car, um, at my age, 63, gonna be 64 in, u in April, I figured it would be perfect perfect fit. My application was approved with that allowed me to minimize my out my monthly outgo. So, that helped financially for me for sure. Here, it's quiet and it's clean and fresh. I I feel at home.

The welcome center. I think that was the key piece that was missing at the transit center. I wanted this thing to be a one-stop shop for our customers. Anything transit related in the region, not just Wilsonville, but in the region, we'll be able to get there. We're working with all of the other providers in the area. Chariots, TRAT, uh, Malala, uh, Cani, Clackamus County, even Sandy, a city as far away as Sandy. All of their information will be available to our customers right there in that welcome center. It's been uh probably about six to seven years since the uh ideas that we had got put on paper and then started being shaped into reality. And I think it's been very gratifying not only for me as project manager but as other staff in city hall who've worked on this over the course of many years to actually see this go from an idea to something being built uh that people can call home. It's pretty amazing. That is Wilsonville at its best. A community that does not turn away from challenges but steps forward to meet them. With that being said, many households remain costburden, spending more than they can reasonably afford on housing. Some facing severe financial strain. That reality affects not just our seniors and individual families, but the long-term stability of our workforce. young adults and our community. Our housing production strategy was recently adopted, excuse me, to expand housing access, promote affordability, encou encourage diverse housing options. Meanwhile, the city's first climate action plan ensures

that future long-term infrastructure accounts for weather conditions. more intense and less predictable than ever. Yes, Wilsonville is moving forward. Its progress is not happening by accident, but by community leadership and good planning. Our local businesses continue to be the backbone of the city, creating jobs, supporting families, and shaping our character. Our work continues both at home and at the legislature to encourage investment in our Coffee Creek and Basalt Creek areas. When we talk about the future of Wilsonville, we're not just talking about growth. We're talking about creating opportunity and stability for the people who live and work and learn here. our workforce, seniors, and students and teachers from the Oregon Institute of Technology and Clackmus Community College. Everything we enjoy is today is a result of deliberate choices made by this community through its elected leaders and carried forward by the work of our expert, dedicated city staff. all engaged in shaping our future together. Which brings me back to that question that will shape the next 50 years. What kind of city do we want Wilsonville to be? Wilsonville deserves a place where families gather, where small businesses can grow and succeed, where people can walk, connect, and experience the beauty

of this community. But it will not happen on its own. It requires us as a community to decide together whether we're willing to invest in that future. The Wilsonville Town Center Plan is not a planning document. It is an adopted roadmap that reflects years of work, community input, and a shared vision for what the heart of Wilsonville can become. This is about whether Wilsonville will have a true civic center, a place where community life comes together. If we do not step forward and shape our own future, it will be shaped for us piece by piece by absentee landowners and developers rather than by the shared vision rather than by the shared vision of this community. Some may wish that Wilsville could stay exactly as it is, but the reality is all cities change. We face a critical decision. Will we shape that change or allow it to shape us? Just as those who came before us made decisions that shaped the Wilsonville we enjoy today, we now have that responsibility. Not just for ourselves, but for people who live here long after we're gone. Last summer, this council directed staff to gather input to better understand what our residents want. The message was clear. There is wide support for a vibrant town center.

Residents raised thoughtful questions about building heights, housing density, and what town center would look like. The questions we received deserved our consideration. We heard clearly that the housing numbers created confusion. So, we went back to work. We created a task force to examine building heights. We revisited the urban rural district proposal that was nearly defeated two years ago. I believe we have a responsibility to come back with a better, more refined urban renewal district plan and to give residents a new opportunity to consider how we proceed. My goal is to bring that refined proposal before the voters of Wilsville this November. This November. That is what this good public process looks like. Listening, refining, and returning with something that reflects the values of the entire community. The entire community. Urban renewal is not an untested theory. in Wilsonville. It is a method we have used successfully to help build the city we all enjoy today without raising taxes. Urban renewal has supported infrastructure, created our parks, provide opportunities for local businesses, and helped guide development in alignment with our values. Our values. Our city has been blessed by many visionary community leaders who helped create the Wilsonville we have today. Now that responsibility passes to us to look beyond our current lives and needs

to determine what's best. is not just the responsibility of council or a mayor is responsibility of all of us. Let's be a community willing to lead. A community willing to think beyond today. A community willing to invest in the future for people they may never meet. As Theodore Roosevelt once said, we do not inherit inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children. We must ask ourselves when our children are ready to build lives of their own, will they choose to stay here? Because in the end, the measure of our work as a community is not just what we build today, but whether the next generation sees a future for themselves in Wilsonville that they belong. If we lead with compassion and integrity, if we listen, if we remain true to the next generations, then one day they will inherit more than a city. They'll inherit a home shaped by a compassionate community that believed in them and those who would follow. Thank you for being a part of Wilsonville's story and thank you for helping build a bright future for our city. And we're adjourned for 20 minutes. Is that good? Okay. We'll resume at about uh almost just before 8:00 for

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I'm resuming our April 20 20th, 2026 city council meeting at 8:00 PM. For expedience, the written mayor's business report will be submitted to the city reporter as part of the city record. Uh we will now move to committee input and announcements portion of the city council agenda. This is an opportunity for visitors to address the city council on any matter concerning city business or any matter over which the council has authority. It also is the time to address items not on the agenda or items on the agenda that are 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 meeting. Please limit your comments to three minutes. When making your remarks, please address the council as a whole and not any one member individually. You may use the podium or sit at the tables in front of council, whatever makes you most comfortable. Please speak into the microphone at either location. To comment before council in person or virtually, you must sign up by completing a speaker card at the side of the room or by using the raise hand feature in Zoom. Please provide your name, address, and topic. Information on engaging with city council can be found on the council web page, wilsonvilleorggon.gov city council. As a reminder, when you begin your comments, please state your name for the record and your address or indicate that your address is provided on your speaker card. Please also know that committee input is a time for council to listen, receive feedback, and hear directly from the community. To keep that process fair and respectful to everyone, council members generally will not respond to individual

comments during this portion of the meeting. If we respond to one speaker and not another, it can create the impression that some viewpoints carry more weight than others. I do not believe that serves the public well. If follow-up is needed, staff or council members can connect with you after the meeting. You're always welcome to submit information in writing, by email, or to schedule meeting with me or any member of council. Uh with that I will uh to good evening honorable mayor O'Neal and distinguished council members. My name is T. I am honored to serve as the president of Vietnamese community of Oregon. On behalf of my community, thank you so much for the recognition in April 30 Vietnamese American Remembrance Day. Your proclamation reached beyond the story or a ceremony. It honor our people who had crossed the oceans to seek freedom and democracy in the US. And this also honor the satri of 58,000 US soldiers and more than 300,000 South Vietnamese soldiers who risk their life for freedom and democracy in South Vietnam from 1955 to 1975. from out of our heart. Thank you so much for the proclamation tonight.

Thank you. And we also have the certificate of appreciation uh to present to you from the community. Thank you.

Thank you. coming up. I'll see you next year. Very nice. Okay. on Zoom. Um, calling Kyle Bunch.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. My name is Kyle Bunch. I'm so sorry that I wasn't able to make it tonight. I'm recovering from pneumonia, but it was important to speak in strong support of measure 3632. Let me start with this. I believe in Town Center. I helped build the original vision as part of the task force. I supported it publicly consistently and I've even volunteered multiple times to stay involved as the plan evolved and yet no seat at the table. So when I hear talk about trusting the process, I have to ask which process and who exactly is included in it. Because from where many of us sit, the process hasn't been inclusive. It's been selective. Over the last several weeks, we've watched members of his council sit up on the DAS and tell the very people you represent how they should vote on a citizen-led measure. That wise people will vote no. And what about the rest of us, counselor? Think about that. The people bringing forward a measure and instead of respecting that process, elected officials are using their platform to influence the outcome. You aren't leading when you do things like this. You're pressuring politically. You're using your position of power to influence an outcome that has political benefits for you and the community sees it. It's also been interesting to hear testimony from both citizens and even counselors that sound like they were written by the same PR team. Polished, packaged, and perfectly aligned for campaign videos shared shortly to social media after it's turned from authentic community voice to coordinated messaging. Next, we had our state representative compare this measure to Donald Trump. Really? I don't like the guy either, but not everything has to be about him. What happened to nonpartisan local government? This has been made unnecessarily partisan by the Wilsonville Democrats. That should concern everyone. And it reinforces a bigger issue. In 2024, when urban renewal failed to the ballot, former Mayor Fitzgerald was preparing to leave office and there was movement to push forward push it forward anyway. And let's be honest, if not for a council willing to draw a line, there were

enough votes to move it forward. Now, fast forward and we see that same former mayor who no longer lives in Oregon posting about this issue from Washington and still trying to influence the outcome here. When people see that pattern, it reinforces the concern that outcomes are being pushed, not earned. So, when we're told to trust the process, understand why people don't. So, here we are with measure 3632, and suddenly we have outside organizations like the Portland Metro Area Realtors and the National Association of Realtors pouring serious money into a small local issue. Ask yourself why. Maybe a call from the mayor helped. It's not because they care about Wilsonville. It's because the measure shifts power away from insiders and back to the people who actually live here. And that's exactly why I support it. This measure doesn't stop development. It doesn't kill Town Center. It simply ensures that the people of Wilsonville have a real say in what happens next. I support Town Center. I support smart growth. And yes, I even support urban renewal when it's done the right way. But I do not support asking this community for blind trust while some attain trying to steer their vote from the dis. That's not how this should work. We truly believe in representative government and respect the voters. We don't try to manage them. So I'll close with this. Trust is earned and right now this measure is how the people of Wilsonville restore it. I urge this council to step back and I urge the citizens of Wilsonville to step up and vote yes on measure 3632. Thank you.

Thank you. Helen Hamilton. Okay. Sorry. Cornelia Gibson. Can I just sit here?

Yes, please. Go ahead. A coughing attack here. My name is Cornelia Gibson and my name is on file. My husband and I have lived in Wilsonville for over 30 years now, and I have seen the population grow from about 6,400 when we got here to over 24,000 now. Wilsonville has a high quality of life and desiraability, and that did not happen by chance. Through responsible urban renewal financing, our city has built critical infrastructure, parks, and thriving communities like Villa Park and Parks without uh raising taxes. Measure 3632 puts all of that at risk. It's being sold as giving voters the right to vote, but that is misleading. The full text of the measure is not included in the voters's pamphlet, only a summary. Voters should ask why. What the summary leaves out is alarming. The measure would require votes on substantial changes, but it goes much further. Even minor adjustments could be delayed for 90 days. During that time, just 5% of electors could force a referendum. That means routine decisions could be tied up in repeated delays and elections. No serious developer will invest under those conditions. The predictable result is fewer jobs, stalled projects, and lost economic opportunity. This is not about transparency. It's about creating uncertainty and obstruction that will halt progress. Wilsonville success has been built on smart planning and the ability to move projects forward responsibly. Measure 3632 would replace that with delay with delay, risk, and gridlock. I hope you won't gamble with our city's future. I will vote no on measure 3632. Thank you,

Wade Keenan. Thank you. My name is Wade Keenan. I've lived in Wilsonville for nearly 36 years. My address is on file. Uh I'm here tonight to speak in opposition to measure 362. I have a lot of concerns about this measure, but I want to focus on just one of those concerns tonight. Uh under the amendment which is proposed to be added to our city charter, it requires the city to provide certain notification prior to any future vote regarding the creation of a urban renewal district or plan. Now, it's not just some vanilla notification. The measure actually sets forth the exact language, the exact wording that the city would be required to send voters in advance of a vote. The city under this amendment would be required to tell the voters that the creation of an urban renewal district would quote may significantly reduce the amount of property tax revenues that would otherwise that would be otherwise available for police, fire, and other public services. Now, I get that. That's an argument that people who oppose urban renewal often make about why they don't want an urban renewal plan. But it's just an argument. It's certainly not an agreed fact. It's just one side of the coin. There's another side to that coin. And those of us who support urban renewal districts can argue and do argue that there are very uh significant tax advantages to the creation of an urb urban renewal district. Those advantages flow to the city as a whole. They acrew to the

benefit of the people in the district and they acrew to the benefit of the people out outside the district. So there's an argument about taxes con which is in this amendment and there's an argument in favor of of the tax advantages. So what's going on here? It's very clear to me that the drafters of this amendment made a conscious deliberate decision to just simply focus on this con the con argument about adverse tax consequences. It's very very sneaky. In fact, in my opinion, it just absolutely stinks if the city is required to provide a notification about the the benefits or or consequences of of a creation of this district. It it has to be neutral. It shouldn't be con and it shouldn't be pro. It should be unbiased. But the people who drafted this are obviously putting their finger on the scale here and they're in essence this would require the city to tell its voters, hey, we've got this new proposed district. But you know what? It's a really bad idea because it it's bad for taxes. That's just wrong. It's not fair to the city. It's not fair to its citizens. And I am a hard hard no on this measure. Melissa Steel. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Um, I'm going to wing it and not take up too much of your time because I've talked to some other members in the um, city already about the situation at Memorial Park with the loose dogs and I have emailed you. Um, I have been there and I

just want to bring to light to everyone that doesn't know about what's going on there. I've been going I've actually live on Wawa Court. It's on file. And I've been in the city for more than 10 years. And I've been going to Memorial Park with my dogs for that length of time. My one dog is 11 and a half and another one is four and I rescued one. And my dogs have been attacked there by a loose dog that came out of the wooded area by the river shelter. I have contacted the city and told them what happened. Um, I have been now verbally attacked by several people because I've asked them to put their dogs on a leash. I put some things on the community page about the situation going on there. I've had more than 70 people say that they're carrying mace, that people have been bit, they've been threatened, they're afraid to say anything because they're going to get followed home or their property might get damaged. The safety issue in that park is a concern because everyone that I've seen has little kids playing on that wooded structure on the far side by across from the fields where I see a lot of loose dogs playing ball where they could just shoot out across there or out of the wooded area. I've been on the wooded trails where there's loose dogs coming around the corners. Um, no people in sight. they're just not on leashes and it's a just a huge safety concern and I've kind of just become the voice for everybody because people are afraid to speak up and I'm concerned that people are carrying mace. People are telling me they're carrying pepper spray to spray dogs and other people that are threatening them. So, I just wanted to bring that to light and that's all. Thank you.

Thank you. Is a Helen Hamilton here yet? Nope. Okay. Jeff Sindell. Now it's on. All right. So, my name is Jeff Zundle. My information is on the speaker card. Um, you know, I I there's a lot of great public comment today. I really actually wanted to build on the state the the state of the city address and echo a lot of the appreciation that we see for the city. Um, there were a lot of great callouts for our amazing city staff and departments and the people in the community, volunteers included, who were doing great things for our city. Um, one of the people that I wanted to call out, one of my favorite partners in the city is Wy O'Neal, who works for SMART. He's our safe routes to school coordinator. He's one of my, like I said, absolute favorite um partners in the city. Um, if you don't know him, he he he organizes community rides. He does bike rodeos and and wheelathons at the school. And one of the things that he and I started doing at the beginning of the school year was a bike bus. This was one one of the things he threw out as an idea at the beginning of the school year at the open house that the school was having. I went up and was chatting him about about different things. And he mentioned bike bus and I was like, "What's that? Let's talk about that." We got it started. It's him and I, we've been doing it the entire school year, rain or shine. We've got a core group of a handful of kids that have stuck with us every single day or sorry, we do this

every week, once a week, uh, over in Villa. And it's a fantastic program. I love bikes. I get around the city on bike quite a lot. I know there's a ton of community members that do this as well. Um, and I can't speak highly enough for how well he's done at running this program and getting this kind of this specific u bike bus off the ground in Villa. Um, I would love for other kids in Villa to join us. Any kid that's commuting to to um to Lowry Primary. Um, it's going this year. We're going to keep doing it all all school year. Um, we're just picking up steam for spring. Um, WY is great. I'd love for the kids to come out and join us. So, if you're not sure how to find this, go to actually I'm not sure. I should have thought about how to pitch this, but reach out to SMART, find find WY O'Neal on the Smart page, email him, he'll give you the details. Um, it's an absolutely great experience for the kids to learn how to bike safely around their community, um, how to use the bike lanes, how to signal, how to how to take care of their bike, um, how to wear the right gear. Um, it's a great program. I'd love to have more kids out to join us. Um, and also, since I've got a little bit more time, one of the other things I mentioned is WY does these um, these community rides as well. The most recent one was the pollinator pedal that they did a couple weekends ago. I wasn't able to join that one because I was running my own pollinator event in my community garden over in Villa and I was uh helping the gardeners in Villa to plant native plants and and pollinator friendly plants and I was able to coordinate with WY to bring his his pollinator petal by my garden while my gardeners were there and I was able to give them a little spiel about what we're doing and the ways that we're hoping to grow that pro the the community garden over in Vilwis as well. um which is another of my passions. But uh just huge appreciation for WY O'Neal and the whole smart program um that supports him. Um I'd love to see more bikers out in the community. Thank you, David Mock.

Good evening. Thanks for the opportunity to speak. My name is Dave Mock and my address is on file. Urban renewal has accomplished much in Wil Wilsonville. The proof is seen throughout the city. It is without equal as the single best means to overcome blight and in providing job opportunities and as a defense against large tax hikes and assuring a community's appeal, vibrancy, and quality of life. Yet, there's a ballot ballot measure denying these positive impacts while generated false narratives. Reciting the virtues of urban renewal will be for another day. Instead, in the spirit of National Volunteer Week, my topic is this and what it means to be a good neighbor. Volunteerism is about giving back. No country on earth does it better than the United States, who was without peer. The generosity and energy is more evident in Wilsonville than just about anywhere else. Being a volunteer is being a good neighbor. Having a default button that's thoughtful, helpful, kind, and generous. Good neighbors are volunteers making their community better while bringing it together. That's what our public places and parks do, too. Where neighbors meet and greet each other. What if we didn't have neighbors who volunteer for youth sports, school boards, church groups, civic activities, neighborhood scouting, tutoring, mentoring, the library, seniors, emergency service, and so much more. Wilsonville would not be the city we have today. its fabric would be torn and tarnished. It's these generous neighbors and volunteers who make our community a better place to live, work, socialize, and raise families. They're a positive force favorably impacting our community. They don't do this by targeting and

trolling folks who volunteer their time, talent, and treasure towards community improvements. They don't seek to smear, intimidate, or make fact-free negative allegations about their neighbors. It's the worthy efforts of volunteers and neighbors who build up people and lift up the community by seeking positive solutions that move us forward. The merits of urban renewal for Wilsonville make it reasonable to believe in its promising future because its results are so strong, so solid, so proven, and so visible in our city. However, there are a handful of community members pushing the ballot measure, also taking aim at discrediting urban renewal advocates. Going after the messenger is page number one in the playbook when facts aren't on that side. Tangling the truth and slinging mud is being unfaithful to our community values. Those who favor urban renewal for transforming our city's blight into space that thrives our virtuous pe our our v virtuous people. If I could just have a few more seconds. They are your neighbors. They are voluntaries volunteers faithfully serving the community. They aren't disrespectful to the proponents of the ballot measure despite the misstatements errors and should the measure pass near certain tax hikes impermanency of blight. Leading with integrity is a practice skill. Naysaying for its own sake is throwing rocks to break windows. From sunrise to sunset, we can disagree neighbor to neighbor about policy. But let's do so respecting individuals and organizations who help lift up our city. Our community deserves this. Our families, friends, volunteers, and neighbors deserve nothing less. Thank you,

Lee. Lee Begman. Oh, but sorry, Begman. Yeah.

Hi, I'm uh Lee Barkman. I My address is on file. In a city like ours, urban renewal is far and away the best method to fund development product projects. It pays for itself, improves the city by making property more valuable. It also has the benefit of allowing the community through its own deliberative process to conceive and plan the projects without being beholden to moneyed outside forces. Measure 3632 will remove urban renewal as an option for Wilsonville forever. The attendant delaying mechanisms built into the measure along with the realities of local politics such as term limits and the volunteer mayor council system ensures that um that it's very unlikely that any elected official would use their political capital to push an urban renewal project in the future. The measure will also forever weaken our mayor council system. The measure removes the most important prerogative of mayor council, the power to initiate public improvements in the cities. Finally, the ballot measure in general, ballot measures in general are an inferior way to legislate. James Madison argued that representative government rather than government by faction is the best way for all the rights of all to be recognized. By having endless votes on the intricacies of complicated year years in the making projects, we would turn the whole process into an us against them issue. However, the potential for compromise always remains when you empower the council to work through the processes that we already have. Please vote no on measure 3632.

Susan Reap. My name is Susan Reap and my information is on file. How many of you remember the folk tale of Henny Penny? An acorn falls on her head and without knowing what happened, Henny Pennney runs to Cocky Locky calling, "The sky is falling. We have to go tell the king." They both run to Goosey Lucy and so on until they meet Foxy Lockxy, who says, "Come to my den and we'll tell the king." Of course, Foxy tricks them and has a nice meal instead. I haven't thought of Henny Pennney for a long time. But as I've been puzzling through measure 3632, which will appear on the May ballot, I'm beginning to feel like the sky will fall if we don't pass it. But I don't want to end up in Foxy Locky's den if I don't know exactly why I'm there. And this doesn't feel right to me. I'm told if I don't vote yes on measure 3632, I'll lose my vote. What vote? My advisory vote on urban renewal projects. It's not binding, but the city has always respected it. But listen, we are one of the only cities in Oregon that lets citizens vote on this at all. This is not something being torn away from us that everyone else has. We have it and almost no one else does. Plus, no one's taking it away. So, why are supporters of Measure 3632 trying to confuse me? What do they really want? I don't want to rush into the fox's den like Henny Penny and friends. So, I better dig deeper here. A yes on measure 3632 will make it harder to use urban renewal as a financing mechanism. Why would anyone want to stop using urban

renewal? Without it, the only way to finance infrastructure improvements or housing for seniors or plans like Town Center to bring new vitality to Wilsonville would be through higher taxes on residents. I don't want higher taxes. Do you? In fact, the few cities that stopped urban renewal because of voter measures like this one went downhill fast and they've clawed their way back to voting urban renewal in again as a financing mechanism. So, do the supporters of Measure 3632 want to send Wilsonville into a downhill spiral? And if so, why? Measure 3632 changes Wilson's Constitution, so I should read it. And I'm told it's pretty long, and I'm not liking the idea of being asked to vote for something I haven't even seen. But where do I find it? It's not out there for everyone to read. All I can say is it's very complicated and the way the process for using and amending urban renewal is is structured make it almost impossible to use and will bring development to a dead stop. Our hopes for a vibrant city with a main street, common spaces, shops, restaurants, galleries and nightife will end and we may never end up with a town center or the amenities citizens desire. Now, why would the people writing this amendment want to do that? Henny Penny might have been right. The sky is falling. And who is really behind me 3632? Why do they want to do this to our city? I'm being hoodwinkedked. And I'm not going to go near Foxy Locky's den. It is a big no for me on measure 3632.

Shirley Simina. Um, I um I'm sorry. My name is Shirley and I actually did not come here to speak. I came, but I came here with the open mind. Um, going back to the urban renewal, um, with that $6 million in mind, what I had in mind was instead of the bike route, why don't you just I'm sorry, I'm not I don't know how to like paraphrase my words, but so if you want to give back into the community, why don't we make garden centers for the community where groceries are more affordable and that the money can go into that and other stuff instead of creating more roads. were, you know, going back to the bike bus. I actually spoke with um Sam Balto, he's the original bike bus and I want to give him credit

because I had a meeting with him this morning and sorry my voice is kind of shaky, but basically I grew up in the city. I went to school here and if you know my story, um I actually was a missing person here. So, the reason why I'm here today is because I feel like I kind of owe it to myself and the city. And going back to the infrastructure, I feel like the money can go more into our community instead of the money can help our local businesses. So, we can create more gardens. Um, that would reduce carbon, right? Reduce carbon traffic. the kids will been will develop independence. I have younger brothers. I have to set an example for them. I have a sister, too. So, I came here because I believe that our city can be better, but I want to know where the money's going and I want to make sure that our community is being helped because I am I don't know. I'm not happy with the way things are right now. And I feel like this might be a little bit of a wakeup call, you know, just I want the money to go into the community. I want to help our people. I want to love our people. Our community can do so much better. With that $6 million in mind, I believe that this garden center will help our community by bring people out. Yes, it might actually I thought about the farmers might lose, you know, some businesses. I'm sorry, but it can still there's a way that we can reduce that in a way where um I believe that we can just I'm sure there's a way we will figure it out. But I feel like the money thing is like okay the money needs to go to the community and by that is by helping our people and the small businesses and if we want to build a tighter community it has to

start with our people. So take away, you know, Donald Trump, whatever. Take away the political fuse. Really, just focus on the people and what our people need. So that's Yes. Thank you, Roger Font. Good evening, Roger Fonts. F O N Tes Sharono District. Uh Mr. Mayor, I want to thank you for your talk this evening. I know we're not supposed to single you out, but I'm so happy with what you talked about tonight and the fact that you and your family love our community so much that I was inspired by your talk. Really appreciate it. Goes a long way. and and an Shavelin, the presentation you did, I think two weeks ago on the measure I'm going to talk about here was perfect. It had all the information people needed. I wish it was mandatory viewing before you were allowed to vote on the measure because it was just on on point. Um, being living in Sharpol, we are kind of a political group. So, I've been s talking to my neighbors and I can tell you on a non-scientific poll that um they we don't like it. People don't understand it. They don't know why it has to happen. They're worried about uh what they hear in innuendo and character assassination and uh conspiracy theories that people aren't allowed to vote, aren't allowed to know things. It's it's crazy. But once you get that in your in your community, it's hard to get rid of. Um, they don't like the way the thing is written. They can't get a copy. That

bothers them. They heard about voting, but they can't read it. Another thing they don't like is that they want the plan we have implemented. They think this is a way of kind of squashing it without doing it right, without finishing it. The whole job. Um, and they've encouraged me to come and speak tonight about about that. Um, I don't think it's I think basically it's a really dumb idea, dumb down really when you think about it. And it's not only dumb, it's destructive. If it passes, as we heard from many, trying to work together as a city to fix it, it's going to be impossible because of the way the procedures are laid out, the timing, how often the vote can happen, and all the other malarkey that these people, the proponents put in to it. So, I don't think it was worth the the time to mess with it, but it's so important. We can't let it pass. We have to stop it. And I'm I for one and everybody I know is gonna vote against it. Thank you.

Andrew Angel.

Good evening. Um my name is Andrew Engel. My information is on file. Uh, thank you mayor and counselors for all the information you presented tonight. I also wanted to thank you for publicly stating your positions on measure 3-632. It's important for the community to know where their leaders stand, whether it's for or against. It provides ownership and accountability for the actions that you're undertaking as council because you live here, you work here, and you're a part of our community, and you're going to be voting in May as well. Thank you for going on record as well that the goal of your council is to have a urban renewal vote on the town center plan funding mechanism in November. I think that's also important ownership and accountability. It shows the community that you're working forward and regardless of the measure uh 3-632 outcome, I trust that you're going to have that vote. And if you don't, then there's that ownership and accountability that you've already stated. So, I know that you're going to do that. And I want to be very clear. Voting on urban renewal in the city of Wilsonville is a tradition, but that is not the same as measure 3-632. Measure 3-632 is a different beast entirely. And I appreciate the discussion that we're able to have as citizens about that. And I appreciate the opportunities that I've had to come up here and testify on that several times to give detailed reasons why this is a bad plan. But today 3-632 is bad. And the reason I wanted to say that and stick to a very simple statement on that is when we vote yes or no on an urban renewal plan, you guys execute on it. you as city council, you as city staff, you all work together and make sure that that will of the voters

is carried forward. And that's a tradition. There's a difference between a tradition and a Trojan horse. And measure 3-632 is a Trojan horse because it's going to tie up your execution of the plan that voters entrusted to you to carry forward. And the voters of Wilson will need to understand that. You all need to understand that. I've harped on it before. When we pass an urban renewal plan, we don't need you to have to come back to us to ask us if you can add $500,000 for this project that you're legally obligated to do or add this 3 acres of land over here for an adjustment to the plan to execute better under the constraint constraints that you're faced with. So, thank you for your transparency and honesty and I look forward to seeing the results in May. I know what I hope they will be and I look forward to you executing as our city council. Thank you,

Bill Bagel. Good evening. I would first just like to commend the woman who spoke. Um, fantastic job. You you and I can second the Sam Balto. I can second the Sam Balto. I know him and can second that. My name is Bill Bagnel and my info is on the card. Wilsonville voters are facing an important choice next month. Do we want Wilsonville to improve or do we want to let 5% of the voters perpetually derail any progress in our city? Voters must understand what is at stake and why a convoluted 900word amendment that no one asked for had been concealed from voters. In fact, it's so bad that the petitioners did not publish the full 900 words of their proposed measure in your ballot book and only recently finally revealed a scan of the document online. This is why it's critical that every voter go to wilsonvilleunited.com to see exactly what they don't want you to see. At that site, you can compare their unhelpful ballot summary to the actual 900 words of legal ease. And note that the intentionally complicated measure adds nearly 25% to our entire city charter. That's crazy. When you go to wilsonvilleunited.com, you'll learn that elections can only be held during even-umbered years and that with their twisted measure, a mere 5% of

voters will be able to continually derail any progress for any reason, regardless of how many residents vote in favor of progress. As other speakers have said, their goal is to interfere and to taint the benefits of urban renewal and hide that if their measure passes, your property taxes will increase. Check out wilsonvilleunited.com to understand why so many in Wilsonville are voting no on measure 3632 this May and why you should too. And one last note, I wrote this all by myself and no AI. Thank you,

Chris Haidderman. I have to follow Bill. Really? My name is Chris Heaidman. My info is on file and I rewrote this about four times while I was sitting there. So, um, if, as supporters claim over and over again, 3-632 is about transparency and about accountability, why couldn't a much, much simpler statement suffice? Perhaps something like, quote, "A new urban renewal plan may be adopted only after a binding vote of the city's electors." Right? One simple sentence that we can all understand. Wouldn't that be better than the 900 words of complexity? I forgot my prop. 900 words of complexity we're being asked to support. Complexities already described by lots of others this evening very eloquently. The misleading language, the unnecessary city expenses, the increased taxes, the unnecessary and inevitable design and construction delays that 3-632 will bring. Or a new urban renewal plan may be adopted only after a binding vote of the city's electors. If the supporters were really interested in transparency and accountability and not in stifling process, this simpler statement would suffice. You have to ask yourself, why did supporters add the 900 words of complexity, cost, and delays? Why not just a new urban renewal plan may be adopted only after a binding vote of the city's electors? Thank you. Mary Rooney. My name is Mary Rooney and my address is

on the speaker card. Measure 3-632, according to its supporters, uses the 2011 Clacamus County Code Amendment as a quote proven model for accountability. To which we all should be asking, where's the proof? The county's code amendment started as a citizen-led petition just like 3-632 here in Wilsonville. The county initiative qualified for the ballot in August of 2011. Around that time, Clakamus County sought legal opinions to understand the practical implications of the amendment if it were to be adopted into the county code. The legal analyses came back with significant concerns about the initiative. One analysis suggested that lack of clarity about the meaning of terms like substantial change, quote, creates unnecessary cost and delay and invites opportunities for litigation end quote. The other analysis identified serious concerns with the petition's compliance uh excuse me, the other analysis quote identified serious concerns with the petition's compliance with Oregon law end quote. With this information, the commissioners included a competing voter approval ballot measure using terms consistent with state law. In the end, the citizen-led initiative won the vote and was adopted into county code. In 2012, Esticada followed with their own initiative similar to Clackmus Countyy's code. Yet, I haven't heard the 3-632 supporters mention Esticada. This voter approval ballot measure passed and was adopted into their city charter. In 2013, the city of Albany too passed a right to vote ballot measure similar to the Clackamus Countyy's code amendment. What became of urban renewal voting in these other jurisdictions? In Albany and Clackamus County, no voting on urban renewal has taken place

since 2013 and 2011, respectively. Esticada, however, took a different path. In 2018, Esticada voters passed a charter amendment to bring their city charter in alignment with state law, including regarding changes related to voter voting requirements. One section removed was the 2012 voter approval on urban renewal amendment. In other words, the amendment we will vote on next month here in Wilsonville is similar to what Esticada has already removed entirely. We could pass this measure and never see another vote on urban renewal as is the case so far in Clackamus County. We could pass this measure and repeal it several years later like in Esticada. Or we could do things differently here in Wilsonville and stop this amendment here and now by voting no on 3-632. Thank you. Christy Mayor. My name is Chris Mayer and my address is on the file card. Thank you, mayor and city council. A city can rise or a city can decline. Not always through one dramatic event, sometimes through smaller choices that make progress easier or harder. Wilsonville's founders understood that. They built this city with a vision of orderly growth, economic opportunity, and careful planning for the future. They gave Wilsonville a representative government built to make decisions and plan ahead. Wilsonville's founders did not incorporate this city so future generations could bury it in red tape. They built opportunity.

Measure 3-632 builds obstacles. Now we're being asked to rewrite our city charter. Before we do that, we should ask questions. Will this make Wilsonville stronger? Will it protect our homes? Will it protect our jobs? Will it attract opportunity? Will it lower costs? Will it objectively improve results? I have not seen that proof from the proponents of this measure. I have not even seen an attempt at proof. I've seen baked in delays with voting restricted to even numbered years. I've seen red tape with 90-day blackout periods and 5% voter referendums. I've seen rigid rules where flexibility exists today. And everyone in this room and watching at home knows the truth. You do not have to ban something to obstruct it. You can regulate it straight into the ground. That is how decline begins. Not all at once, but one unnecessary barrier at a time. If someone wants to rewrite our city charter, the burden is on them to prove our city will be better off. Show us the evidence. Show us the benefits. Show us the success stories. There aren't any. We have seen similar approaches fail elsewhere. We have seen stagnation where flexibility was lost. We should not repeat those mistakes here. Residents are speaking out against this measure. I would like all five of you to speak out against this measure. Carry the vision of our founders forward. Please stand with residents. Stand with Wilsonville businesses. Vote no on measure 3-632. Thank you,

Helen Hamilton. Okay. Okay. On Zoom, Ayana River.

Hello. Can you hear me? Yes. Go ahead. My name is Iona River and I reside at Weedman Park Apartments on Brown Road, which is an incomerestricted property with residents aged 55 plus and those with disabilities. I've asked for an accommodation tonight to submit this as written and as well as reading it. And I also request one to two minutes of additional time as needed due to my learning disabilities.

Go right ahead. I'm speaking tonight in support of resolution 3240, approval of Brown Road improvement project contract, and to say that I'm voting no on measure 3632, so that we can move forward with urban renewal projects such as this without even further delay. The town center project also needs to proceed and break ground as soon as possible due to accessibility and safety concerns and more. I have the hope to have the capacity to speak on that in May. We've been waiting for the Brown Road project to start for a long time and to be honest, I'm tired. Every time I leave my apartment as a wheelchair pedestrian, I have to gear up to bravely cross either Brown Road or Wilsonville Road via unsafe crosswalks. For speed down Brown Road, rarely stopping for pedestrians to cross at crosswalks. They don't even see us, or if they do, they don't care. The sidewalk cutouts have large bumps at the base that cause unnecessary safety issues when going up or down the cutouts. Don't even get me started on how many barriers there are on Camelot off Brown Road. Cars heading west on Wilsonville Road and taking a ride on Brown Road often don't even look for pedestrians or slow down much before turning on to Brown. In spring of 2024, Mayor Fitzgerald happened to walk by on a Saturday and I and joined a group of us from Weedman over at Trownquil Park. She had seen some graffiti and stopped to take a picture of it so she could report it to the city. She joined our group and spent a long time explaining how the Brown Road project would be funded and assured

us it would be completed in 2025. Here we are in April of 2026 and I understand the project is due to begin next month. I'm here to lobby for one, the contract to be approved and the work to begin on time. two considered consideration by the city to include Wilsonville Road crosswalks, traffic signals, and adjacent pedestrian path to Brown Road in the project. There is unsafe sidewalk damage and no path lighting which could easily cause a fall or wheelchair or bike to flip over. I have already reported this to the city and no repairs have been made. I myself have almost flipped over in my wheelchair at night and at that spot as the pedestrian path isn't lit and the sidewalk is broken. Uh just a few more seconds. Three consideration by the city to include crosswalk and traffic light safety improvement at the intersection of Brown Road and Wilsonville Road at all four corners. I have reported this to the city and they reminded me of the upcoming Brown Road improvement project. And number four, consideration by the city to include improvements to allow for safe access to the pedestrian path that leads to the water treatment plant from Wilsonville Road sidewalk and from the apartment complex parking lot on the south side of Wilsonville Road. Both entries to the path have significant barriers to accessibility which I have reported to the city. The path leads to the Tonquin Trail near the water treatment plant, Arrowhead Creek Park. I was told the owners of those adjacent properties are responsible for those repairs. That's unclear because I imagine the path to the park is owned by the city, but the path is not accessible. Thank you for your consideration and I look forward to the Brown Road project beginning next month.

Thank you. Is it no one? Okay. Thank you everyone. Now turning to councelor comments, le liaison reports and meeting announcements. Council president Barry.

Thank you. And I'd like to say thank you to everybody who took their time to show up for our meeting tonight um and participated. Um thank you for your uh statement tonight. That was wonderful. Um, I I'll keep my comments brief, but I just like to highlight that one of the things that I really really like about Wilsonville is the amount of participation as we see tonight, as we see at most of the city council meetings. Um, at the recent Easter uh egg hunt down at Memorial Park, I don't know how many people were there, but it was packed and it was such a fun event. And I'd just like to say thank you to the staff that organized it. Um, so this last week, one of the highlights for me was getting to go over to the primary school and join the Cub Scouts and teach them a little bit about how cities are run and how um, counselors are elected. And I was just so impressed with the Cub Scouts. I told several people that it just gives me really bright hope for the future for our generation. Like they these were fourth graders and they had questions that they were prepared with. They listened to my answers. They did followup questions. I was just really really impressed with the amount of engagement. Um and then um there's two more things that I want to mention is that on Wednesday the um we're having the volunteer appreciation event and the mayor doesn't isn't going to be able to attend because he's going to a conference, but I'll be there and I just uh I hope that we have lots of people who show up because we just so much appreciate all the volunteers that make our city run and run so well. And finally, one of the comments that I made

at the last meeting that I attended is that our uh behavioral health behavioral specialist uh Brenda had left to move on and there was a sigh from the audience and everybody was disappointed because she's done such a great job. But I was reading our uh reports in the packet that the um the city manager has each department head submit a monthly report. And in the police report, I saw a note welcoming u Steve Oullivan who's going to be our new behavioral specialists. And I think that he'll probably do a wonderful job tonight. We got to hear about another um team member. It's kind of late. I can't remember exactly all the details, but um one of the things that's special about Wilsonville is that we do have our police that go out and attend to problems, but we also have some staff that can help with people that are having behavioral, you know, maybe it's a mental health uh crisis or a drug or alcohol crisis and we see them as human beings and can direct them to the right resources if they're open to that. And so I welcome Steve O Sullivan to the city.

Thank you. Thank you, Councelor Cunningham.

Thank you. On uh April 9th, I had the opportunity to attend uh the parks and wreck uh advisory board meeting. Um it was a good opportunity to see um that board in action. Uh they spent some time, a significant amount of time uh talking about grant money and how to allocate grant money to some worthy causes in our community, including Soul Sisters um and a high visibility uh community walking type of uh neighborhood watch uh enhancement in Charbano uh among others. And uh I was very impressed with the conversation around uh that grant money and how to judiciously um you know uh put it out into the community and ensure that uh you know the needs of the community and the concerns of the community when when we talk about those things were we're all accounted for. I also got the opportunity to meet our new director of parks and wreck uh Megan Big John. Uh I saw her in the back earlier. I think she might have snuck out. Um, but uh had the opportunity to welcome her aboard and uh she came very highly spoken of by uh Brian Stevenson who was there uh helping with that meeting. Um and then I was able to uh also attend and uh observe the Washington County Coordinating Committee meeting on uh April 13th. It's 9:00. I'm supposed to be telling my kids to go to bed. Go to bed, kids, if you're watching. Um, one of the things that came up towards the end of that meeting, we had u there was there was a piece of legislation um that the governor recently vetoed uh surrounding local uh community leaders ability to communicate with each other. And uh

unfortunately it was uh it was vetoed and uh but I was very impressed that uh the mayors in that meeting uh did speak uh pretty strongly about ensuring that we um find a better resolution to that and that we get some clarification for councils like ours to be able to uh communicate uh as best as possible with uh with each other when appropriate and with our community as a whole. Um, and then to um I will address one of the uh citizens who had input, Miss Steel, about the off leash dogs. Um, I did see that concern come up on our local community Facebook groups and um, luckily I had a good conversation with our city manager about it today and she's going to have some information for us during her report later on that. U, but I appreciate that Miss Steele was uh, comfortable coming to council and bringing this issue uh, before us. It's something that that we as a council uh you know have a responsibility to address uh for the welfare of our citizens at large and to ensure that our parks are safe and uh we're taking good care of our community in that way. So that's all I have. Thank you.

Thank you, Councelor Chevlin. Thank you. I want to thank uh your honor for the inspiring state of the city address this evening. I want to thank all of our attendees uh for coming, those that are watching uh uh online and thank you all who who spoke up. I'll just be very brief. It's late. I am uh very proud to serve this the city that our mayor described for us this evening. I'm proud and humbled to sit on this council and I'm happy to serve with each one of you. Thank you very much. Thank you,

Councelor Skull. my meeting schedule for the for the past couple weeks and the coming weeks will uh be on file. I'll submit those. Uh first, I want to thank the mayor for a very good speech. Um it was very enlightening and it shows how well maintained and how good of a community Wilsonville is. I want to thank all the citizens for uh their citizen input. It's very informative. In terms of the dogs and the pedestrian walkway, uh I'm a walker every day as as much as I can and I've been chased by dogs and barked at and the pedestrian walk. Uh I can't tell you how many times I've almost been hit by cars where I'll get someone to look the other way. They'll just look the other way or they'll wave to me as they drive past. You know, please be careful and I hope we can solve the uh the dog problem. uh you know the uh amendment 3-362 is a pot button issue for us. It's very uh important that we oppose that and vote no on that. Uh Wilsonville has built his reput its reputation as one of Oregon's most livable and economically stable communities uh through thoughtful and long range planning and disciplined financial management. Uh this proposed charter amendment while promot promoted as voter oversight would significantly uh slow development and reduce economic competitiveness and weaken the city's long-term financial health. So let me be clear. Urban renewal is not speculative speculative spending. It's a structured economic development tool that allows cities to invest in infrastructure that enables private investment, job creation, and increases property values. Roads, utilities, storm water systems, and redevelopment of

underutilized land do not happen organically. They require coordinated planning and timely execution by requiring voter approval for every new plan or change or major adjustment. This inter uh this amendment introduces an election style or election cycle delays often 16 18 months or more while project costs continue to rise due to inflation, labor shortages and material cost uh escalations. The reality is straightforward. Uh delay equals higher cost and lost opportunity. Construction costs have increased dramatic dramatically in recent years and post postponing infrastructure investment only compounds these increases. At the same time, developers and business investors require predictability and timing. If Wilsonville cannot respond efficiently to these investments or if they cannot respond efficiently, uh these investments will s uh simply shift to neighboring communities uh that can basically respond. This amendment risks putting Wilsonville at a competitive disadvantage, reducing job growth, slowing housing production, and limiting expansion for our commercial and industrial tax base. Equally important is the impact on the city's long-term financial health. Urban renewal works by leveraging future growth in property values to fund today's infrastructure. When used responsibly, which Wilson bill does, it expands the overall tax base and ultimately generates more revenue for core services like police, fire, and parks. Slowing or preventing these investments, does not preserve financial stability. It does just the opposite. It constrains growth, limits future revenues, increases the likelihood that the city will need to rely more heavily on fees, rate increases, and other funding mechanisms such as taxes to maintain service uh service levels.

This amendment also shifts complex technical financing decisions to the political arena. Urban renewal financing involves detailed feasibility modeling, debt structuring, and long-term economic forecasting. trying uh tying these decisions to campaign cycles uh introduces uncertainty and increases the risk that decisions will be driven by short-term messaging just what's happening now rather than long-term community benefit over time that can lead to fragmented planning underinvestment in infrastructure and missed opportunities that are diff difficult and costly to recover from. Wilsonville success has never been accidental. It is a result of consistent planning, strategic investment, and the ability to adapt over time. This amendment would limit that flexibility, slow progress to a crawl, and introduce unnecessary financial risk, including a potential for increased taxes. While voter engagement's critical, this proposal goes too far by creating process barriers that undermine the very tools that have helped make Wilsonville strong. For these reasons, I oppose this amendment. Thank you.

You okay, the next item is our consent agenda. Will the city attorney please read the items on consent? Resolution number 3231, a resolution of the city of Wilsonville authorizing the city manager to execute a third amendment to the professional services agreement with Brown and Caldwell, Inc. for the construction administration services for the Beckman Creek flow mitigation project capital improvement project number 7068. Resolution number 3240, resolution of the city of Wilsonville, authorizing the city manager to execute a construction contract with 9inth River Corporation Northwest for the construction of the Brown Road improvements project, capital improvement in project number 4216, resolution number 3257, a resolution of the city of Wilsonville authorizing the sole source procurement of manual meter reading services by Meter Readers LLC.

Thank you. City Council President Barry, can I have a motion to adopt the consent agenda? I move to adopt the consent agenda as read. Motion's been made. Is there a second? Second. Motion's been made and seconded. All those in favor say I. I. Motion passes. 5-0. Now we're going to jump to new business. Ask staff to come forward. Hi there.

It's a good thing I was sitting in the back because our attorney reads very fast. Thank you, mayor and city council, for your time tonight. In new business, you have the extension of our city attorney's employment agreement. And the intent of this extension would be to keep the same terms of the current agreement. This would be the second amendment. We did make an amendment in December. And the intent would be to keep the current terms until June 30, 2026 to allow for time for council to determine what type of performance review process they would like to do, if any, and then also allow time to negotiate a new employment agreement. Thank you. Any questions of council?

Okay, city council president Barry, can I have a motion approve the extension of the city attorney's employment agreement? I moved uh to approve the city attorney employment agreement extension as proposed. Thank you. Extension. I forgot that. Is there a second? Second. Okay. The motion has been made and seconded. Any further discussion on the motion? All those in favor say I.

I. Motion passes. 5-0. Thank you. Uh, city attorney if I can. Um, thank you for agreeing to that extension. Um, you're welcome. Also, can you guide me when we hit 10 because I am watching the clock. Okay. So, I I just wanted to let you know I'm kind of proud of myself. I'm letting you know that I know. Okay. Usually, I'm the one to forget. Okay. Uh, tonight we have two public hearings. The first to consider is resolution number 3256. I would ask the city attorney to read the resolution summary. The title,

the title, excuse me. Resolution number 3256, a resolution of the city of Wilsonville authorizing a supplemental budget adjustment for the fiscal year 202526.

Thank you. The order for procedure for tonight's hearing is set out in detail in our city code. In brief, we'll start with a staff report. Next, the public will ask to be provide testimony. I'll ask everyone who signed up in advance to testify first in the order in which they signed up. Then I'll ask if anyone present in council chambers would like to testify. And then I'll ask anyone who is on the Zoom meeting who has not testified but would like to testify to do so. For those in the audience, please fill out a speaker card and provide to the city recorder. For those on Zoom, if you want to provide public testimony remotely during the me this meeting, please use a raise hand feature in Zoom or press star 9 on your telephone to notify the city recorder you wish to speak when the time for public testimony is called. If you're having difficulties with these instructions, you may call 1669-900-6833 and when prompted, enter webinar ID number 81536056468. Both numbers are shown on the screen. When you begin your testimony, please state your name and address for the record or you may state that your address is as provided to staff. After each person testifies, counselors may pose questions to me to be addressed by the person who testified or to staff to clarify any information that was conveyed in the testimony. Once the city council has heard from everyone and the city council is established, it has all the information it needs to render a decision, the public hearing will be closed. Council deliberates and I will announce the result. We wish to hear from everyone who wants to testify. However, we request that you refrain from repeating testimony already given by someone else. If you agree with that with what someone before you has said, please provide your testimony indicating that you concur with what has been previously said. Public testimony will

be limited to three minutes. We'll uh we will time the testimony and provide you with a visual warning when there is one minute remaining. Looks like I emptied the room. So, uh, but I have to read that anyway, folks. Uh, the public hearing is now open at 9:13 p.m. Uh, Cath Katherine Smith, assistant finance director, please go ahead and provide your staff report.

Thank you. Good evening, mayor and city council, and Katherine Smith, the city's assistant finance director. Before you this evening as a housekeeping item is request for a budget supplemental to amend the current fiscal year 202526 adopted budget as outlined in your council packet and summarized on the screen before you. This budget supplemental includes unanticipated changes in legal appropriations of $ 1.5 million. And with that we're happy to answer any questions. Counselor any questions? Councelor Skull.

Yeah, I'm considering let's see looking at the CIP water uh what is it? Uh 1127. It says costs are reimbursible to the city from WWSP. Uh could you the reimburseable? Is it over time? Is it does that come back to us and reduce this uh overrun down to 1.2 million instead of 1.5 something? Uh yes, what you're seeing here is uh whenever there's an increase, there's an increase both in uh we're showing the money coming in, but the offset is the money going out, right? And so right here we're showing the expenses, there is a coinciding um increase in revenue, too.

Okay. And that comes back over time, if I understand correctly. Just a moment. I want to be clear how we outlined it in the staff report. That's fine. I just Great question.

Well, I'm Keith Kek, the city's finance director. It comes in um as incurred. it gets reimbursed by that um that agency for the incurred expenses basically. So what we're asking here is additional budget authority and then as those actual expenses are incurred then there would be the actual revenue received right so it does come back and the question is over over how how much time is it just you know within the fiscal year within the okay within the so it's a net zero basically there you go that's a little late city manager Trojo do you have anything to add

no I think I think u Mr. Katco has answered it. These were for inspection services. So it does he answered the question. It does come back over time. Councelor Chevlin. So just to hook on with what councelor Skull was acting asking then the 1.5 million 54 million will be reduced on the other side of the ledger because we'll be getting 379,000.

Correct. Uh in the 1.5 is a culmination of a variety of projects up there including the um CIP 11127 that you're referencing. Um some of those will be like additional expenses out of the water fund for the reservoir security improvements. Um contracted police services will be additional uh draw on the general fund. Thank you. Councelor Skull. Uh just one additional question re relative to the law enforcement police uh overrun of the 297. Um uh is any of any portion of that being negotiated with the county? Um Gina, do you want to address that or

go ahead?

Yeah, I can take that. Um there's been conversations with the county about this particular uh increase in the contract that we are seeing this year. Uh in terms of the budget supplemental, uh that conversation is still occurring. However, what we're looking for is what's going to happen next year because the impact to this is what it is. The $297,000 is what the impact is to the contract this year. The city pays actual costs. So, we get build from the sheriff's office for actual costs. this $297,000 was um an error in terms of how they accounted for those actual costs. The real key to this is the fact that that accounting mechanism is going to carry over into next fiscal year in terms of the increase to the city's contract. We're going to continue to have conversations with the sheriff's office to see if that um has the opportunity to be reduced.

Thank you. Any other questions of councel? Anything else that staff wants to present? Okay, with that hearing no questions, everybody, is there anybody that is testifying at all tonight? Do we have anybody? Anybody in the audience that wishes to testify? Okay, seeing none, I declare the public hearing closed at 9:18 p.m. And this is a point where we can deliberate, which is something that's always been amazing to me because we never deliberate. We usually wait till the motion, but is any further conversation or discussion to deliberate? Okay, hearing none, uh, can I have a motion to approve resolution number 3256? I move to adopt resolution number 3256. Do

I have a second? Second. Okay. The motion's been made and second. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I.

I. Motion passes. 50. The second public hearing. The council will consider ordinance number 902 on first reading. Could I would the city attorney read the title, please? This is the first reading of ordinance number 9002, an ordinance of the city of Wilsonville amending sections 5.035, 5.2000, 5.210, and 5.405 of the Wilsonville Code to revise the definition of abandoned vehicles and to reduce the duration allowed for parking on public streets.

Okay. Thank you. The order of procedure for tonight's hearing is set out in detail in our city code. In brief, we will start with a staff report. Next, the public will be asked to provide testimony. I'll ask everyone who signed up in advance to testify first in the order which they signed up. Then I'll ask if anyone present in council chambers would like to testify. And then I'll ask anyone who is on Zoom meeting has not testified but would like to testify to do so. After each person testifies, councilors may pose questions to me to be addressed by the person who testified or to staff to clarify any information that was conveyed in the testimony. Once the city council has heard from everyone and the city council has satisfied all the information is it needs to render a decision, the public hearing will be closed. Council deliberates and I'll announce the result. We wish to hear from everyone who wants to testify. However, we request that you refrain from repeating testimony already given by someone else. If you agree with that, excuse me, if you agree with what someone before you has said, please provide your testimony indicating that you concur with what has been previously said. Public testimony will be limited to three minutes. We will time the testimony and provide you with a visual warning when there is one minute remaining. The public hearing is now open at 9:21 p.m. I would ask staff to present the report. Thank you, mayor and councel. Amanda Guile, Henman, city attorney, and tonight I'm here with Hannah Young, our law clerk, who is attending this in the midst of finals in law school. So very appreciative for her, not only her work on this, but also her being here tonight. Um, so tonight we are

Will you let her professors know some extra credit? She gets some extra credit. Exactly. Do that. So I'm impressed.

I asked her, I said, "You don't have to come." Um so tonight we are uh council's considering on on first reading uh ordinance number 902 which is the culmination of code updates on parking time limits and abandoned vehicles. This has been an ongoing discussion with council since last year. So the agenda for tonight is um we're going to provide the overview of the council goals that led to this uh the culmination of this ordinance. We'll then briefly for the community go over what ordinance number 902 entails. talk about next steps and then of course answer any questions that council may have.

All right. Good evening, mayor and council. Um so just to provide a little bit of background um we've been talking about this for uh as Amanda said uh better part of a year but just to give you a little rundown um we initially identified the problem and project in the July 21st work session. uh we completed uh community outreach in uh and provided an update on that at the December 15, 2025 work session and uh most recently we provided proposed code updates and identified those on the March 2nd 2026 work session. Uh just a recap on our research strategies that we did employ. Uh we initially started with juris jurisdictional outreach and uh code research uh to see what other municipalities are doing uh as well as any other options and ways that Wilsonville could improve. We initiated a community questionnaire to see and also reached out to impacted groups to make sure that we had a full understanding of the community's issues and what uh we could provide in way of ordinance. And finally, we had our proposed code updates that we uh discussed last time at the March 2nd work session. So to start us off, we have our parking update. So, currently Wilsonville Code allows vehicles to be left parked for 72 hours before they are subject to a citation or a possible removal. Uh, as it stands, this can create an enforcement gap that I think we've talked about. Um, and when code or law enforcement uh then have to observe for 72 hours following that 72 hours, that creates the inefficiency and uh frustration for a lot of community members. What this uh parking update would do would bring it down to 48 hours. Uh the code sections that would

be impacted here would be in the vehicles and track traffic chapter of Wilsonville Wilsonville's municipal code. So that would be 5.035, 5.200, 5.210, and 5.405. And fi uh next our update would be to the abandoned vehicle code definition. This is something that we really saw uh that we found successful in other jurisdictions in having a clear and cut definition for what constitutes an abandoned vehicle. So what we propose is 24 hours that the vehicle has been unoccupied and it has at least one condition. Those conditions are listed here. So either no plates, no insurance, uh it appears inoperable or disabled or it appears wrecked, partially dismantled or junked. And this would impact code sections 5.035 and 5.405.

And as further clarification, particularly to um Wilsonville code section 5.405. This was updated by staff and it's in the council packet. Um 5.405 deals with the provision of towing with prior notice. And when staff was reviewing that code language um to make sure to ensure that the time periods were matching up with the other parts of the code that were being updated, one of the things we realized that was that there was a lack of clarity around um section one sub A through D, whether those were unique and distinct from each other or whether they all those conditions had to exist. And we realized they definitely appeared that they are distinct because some of them are mutually exclusive. So, we went through and updated the code language to make that perfectly clear that it's not an and it's they're each a distinct item. Um, and also making it clear that there's a difference um as reflected in 5.035. There's a difference between what's considered an abandoned vehicle and what's considered a stored vehicle. The abandoned vehicles the 24 hours, the stored vehicles the 48 hours. So, we clarified that in 1A that it's potentially subject to tow with prior notice for stored vehicles after 48 hours and abandoned vehicles after 24 hours. Um, so that change has been made. So, the staff recommendation for council tonight is that updates to the city's parking regulations may address some of the public health, safety, welfare, and livability issues that community members express either to council or through calls to law enforcement. mechanisms to adjust the allowed uh time to park in one given area from a total of 144 hours between observation by a community member and then by law enforcement to 96 hours may take action uh could produce a visible benefit in response time and overall abatement of nuisance. Ensuring that the city has the tools necessary to proactively prevent the proliferation of long-term parking on city streets can

address livability concerns. This strategy may aid the city in crafting regulations that address specific concerns without being overroad, vague, or inflexible in the city's long-standing approach to code compliance. The goal is to balance livability concerns with providing reasonable regulations to achieve compliance. Ensuring the city has the tools necessary to proactively prevent the proliferation of long-term parking on city streets can address livability concerns, and this strategy can aid the city in crafting the regulations. So the goal like mentioned the uh staff recommendation is for council to adopt ordinance number 902 on first reading. So next steps the second reading is current assuming council adoption tonight. The next reading is scheduled for May 4th, 2026. And I did want to also highlight that unlike our typical 30-day implementation, staff is um recommending and has included in the ordinance an effective date of July 1, 2026, we are currently working internally on an education campaign within that time period to make sure the community is aware that this change of regulation is occurring or will be occurring. Um, and then before I get to questions, I just want to take a moment because Hannah is going to be ending her internship with us um, at the end of this month. And I mentioned this at our last council meeting that um, the especially around goal two and public safety. This really wouldn't happen without Hannah and Tobin's work on this uh, on these projects. And I really just want to extend my appreciation to Hannah for all of her hard work and spending some night meetings with all of us. So, thank you so much, Hannah. And I'm really excited for your next opportunities.

Thank you. Thank you. It's been a blast. All right, and that's it for staff. Yeah. Well, you did it. You've done an awesome job helping our city attorney. Thank you. Uh any Well, we have questions. Councelor Shefflin.

Thank you. Just uh comments. Uh I was afraid when we first started working on this that we were really opening a Pandora's box that we just all the pieces were going to come flying out and how were we ever going to get our arms around them? So, thank you to the city attorney's office, to Hannah, uh because you've done working with us done a very nice job bringing all the pieces together and being able to uh make this uh presentation this evening. So, thank you very much, Councelor Cunningham.

Yeah, echoing uh Councelor Chevlin's comments, thank you very much, Hannah, for your work on this. Um I'm sure that wherever you land, uh they'll be very lucky to have you. So, thank you for uh for doing this important work. Uh I'm very pleased with uh the outcome of this. Um you know, we as we work through this, you know, we we had some other options on the table. We were looking at an RV permit system and things like that. And um you know I think that we came to a conclusion on this um that was measured and uh shows that that we care about the issue that we're working towards a solution on it um and that we'll be watching you know how this works and um you know that the other ideas are still you know they're in the file somewhere but um if this if this turns out to not be the solution we're looking for um you know I hope that we can continue to work hard to find a good resolution and and uh make sure that we're taking care of our community and our businesses and and our citizens. So, thank you very much.

Thank you, Councelor Skull.

I echo the thank you. Good job. Great package. Uh I'd like to get this on the books as quickly as we could. A question I have and this might be a bit of a reach. U in terms of implementation u is a from an HOA perspective. I'm an active HOA president and I communicate with a few others uh within the Villa Ball area and there are a lot of questions and a lot of concerns that come through the HOAs regarding park cars. It's a hot button issue and uh you know there's I see a lot of uh HOA board of director me board members and all that they just don't know how to talk about it or address it. Would there be an opportunity either through staff or through uh the police department when this rolls out to, you know, have a little get together and invite the HOA presidents in so that they can be educated?

Absolutely. That's a great suggestion. Yeah. Yeah. Because it does come up quite often and you know and it's a wrestling match over what's going on in the streets versus the alleys and you know there's all kinds of questions there, but I'm not I don't see or hear a lot of solutions and this actually fixes a lot of that. So I think it would be critical to as a communication uh channel to use those uh those contacts to promote this program. Yeah. And actually you bring up a good point as we've discussed previously what this is talking about is the city streets. So it is good to make sure that it's clear that where this is and where this isn't a new regulation. Yes.

Yes. So great job. Thank you,

Council President Barry. Um yeah, I'd just like to say thank you. Um I think you did you brought a lot of clarity uh to this issue and how it can be resolved. I I support it. I I like the shorter timeline. Um I like the list that you uh prepared and I I support it. I also like the effective date of July 1. I would only say that, you know, I'm probably pushing, but I think 95% of what council does, we all agree on and work together on a process. This is a perfect example that graffiti where we all line and work together to come up with a excellent result aided by staff and especially the city attorney's office. And um it's really nice where we have this alignment. I think a lot of people out in the community don't realize that, you know, we agree on a lot more than we disagree. Uh this is just another example. Um I do think outreach is appropriate and as extensive as we can. Um and but I really thank both of you for all your hard work. I really appreciate it.

Okay. Thank you. Okay. Any further questions? Okay. Any public testimony online? Nope. Anybody in the audience that wishes to Okay, I have one. Okay. Does he have to fill out a card? You can fill out a speaker card after. Please state your name. Say I don't mind. State your name for the record.

All right. My name is Jeff Zundle. Um, I'm I'm at 11729 Southwest Oslo to avoid the card, I guess. But, um, but, uh, I I love this. Great work on this. Fantastic. Thank you, Hannah. Thank you, Amanda. Thank you, council, for doing this. I I understand the enforcement side of this and and the gap that this helps to close with enforcement. And I I haven't been as as in involved or in the loop on some of the past work on this. So, forgive me if this has already been addressed, but one of the things that I also hear as a HOA board member from my uh from my fellow neighbors is um that a lot of the houses in Bible actually don't have garages that are big enough for their cars. And we do while I while I am a strong advocate for a non-car dependent society, Wilsonville is still very largely car dependent and and um you know, we can work on that. But for the the residents who can't park their cars in their garage because their garage isn't big enough and there isn't really an alternative for them to get around is does this exacerbate a a potential for those people to not have a place to reasonably park their car in the city? Um, and I wonder if that's something that's come up in the community input. I wonder if that's something that's being factored in. Um, I know this is largely looking at the enforcement side of this. So maybe it's uh the spirit of this is really that this happens when the city gets a report of a car that's been sitting there, but what happens if uh if that gets abused? What if somebody goes out of town for a long weekend and finds that their their car that they don't really think of as storing on the street has been towed because of maybe a malicious neighbor or something like that? I'm thinking of what could go wrong with this sort of leg legislation. So um that's all I've got. Just a thought that popped into my head. I'd love to hear your thoughts on that. Thank you.

Oh, do I need to say no? No, you can. Staff, do you have any way to respond to that?

Sure. So, um, the first thing that I'll say is that the 48 hour it's it has to be continuous. So, if a person is coming and going, that does not apply. We are complaint-based. So, it would require a complaint to occur. Um, we are always a compliance first type of approach. So, we um try to locate who the vehicle owner is, talk with them, ask them or well tell them what the regulation is and that they need to move their vehicle. Um, and generally speaking, I would say outside of probably abandoned vehicles when we're talking about parked vehicles is more likely uh a step if we can't get compliance would be at least a citation to start um before we'd go immediately to tow unless there is some kind of you know life safety issue which might result need a tow more quickly. Like for example, what I'm thinking about is if we have a road project where we've put up signs that hey you can't park here cuz we're about to do slurry seal. We put up signs ahead of time to let people know, hey, if your car's here, it will get towed if it's still here when we start our project. Um, so generally we really stress compliance and as much notice as we can reasonably give before we're towing somebody because we do understand the impact of that. So it really comes down, I would say, more to an implementation st from an implementation standpoint than a code language standpoint.

And a lot of that back to that community outreach to educate as well. So, yep. Thank you. Absolutely. Any questions of council in light of that testimony? Any further testimony tonight? Okay. Anything else that the council needs clarified before I close the hearing? Okay. I close this public hearing at 9:38 p.m. Does council wish to deliberate on this at all? Okay. All right. Do I have a motion uh to adopt ordinance number 90 9002 on first reading?

I move to adopt ordinance number 902 on first reading. Okay. Okay. The motion's been made by council president Barry. Is there a second? Second. Okay. The motion's been made and seconded by councelor Chevlin. All those in any further discussion? Okay. All those in favor say I. I. The motion passes 5. Okay. Um, city manager business.

Thank you, mayor and city councilors. I'm going to give you just a brief overview uh related to off leash dogs in Memorial Park. I know several of you received emails about this in addition to the public testimony that you heard tonight. So, I thought it'd be worthwhile to let you know what has been done and what will be going on as it relates to enforcing the uh leash rule in Memorial Park and specifically, but this also applies to all of our other parks. Uh David uh Baloon Zoella, who is our code compliance coordinator, uh makes routine visits to Memorial Park as well as all of our other parks uh just to help enforce those laws. when he sees folks that have their dogs off leash, he will um approach those individuals and have a conversation to try to gain voluntary compliance. Uh sometimes this occurs when uh they are not when David is not working or on weekends and that's when a lot of the incidents are happening. Uh Chief uh Wilson has worked with Clackamus County uh dispatch to ensure that when calls come in on the emergency or the non-emergency line to the police dispatch as it relates to dogs off leash that they are dispatching our officers and that our officers are going down to Memorial Park and making those contacts with individuals to uh remind them that the law is that they need to keep their dogs on leash. Uh if people see uh dogs off leash and they want an immediate response, calling police non-emergency is the best way to get immediate response. So that's really what we're encouraging people to do. Um if they're in a situation where they are feeling threatened, we want them calling the police. Um that is an incident where you need to be contacting law enforcement if you're feeling threatened in any manner. We're hoping that some of

this just education to folks, direct education to folks in the parks about their dogs being off leash will uh gain compliance from folks. But we're also going to do some just general education about reminding people that there is a uh leash law in place. We've put temporary signs up at all of the entrances to Memorial Park. We'll be putting up permanent signs. Those are on order, but it'll take about 3 to four months before we get those. And then we'll install those as well. that'll be done by our parks and recreation team. So, that's a little bit about what we've been doing and a little bit about how staff will be proceeding from here on forward. Um, I'm happy to answer any questions if you've got any. I have I have no questions, but I have a comment being a fellow dog owner is that I think there's people that have a misperception that there's clear there are dogs out there off that cause problems, but there's also people that, you know, think their dog has been obedient and well trained that they can have their dog off leash because the dog's not running around. But that in in my view that sends the wrong message to the person that has a challenging dog and they say, "Well, if that person can go without a leash, why can't I?" And that's where the problem begins. Um, I've seen this happening and I, you know, the city attorney educated councelor Cunningham and I, maybe others that Graham Oaks Park is not in city limits. So, I understand that we don't have control over that, but I will tell you that I think that maybe there should be some communication somehow to Metro and things because, you know, we have wildlife in there. Um, but I've seen dogs run off leash all the time in there. Um, and they put the danger of

not only the dog, other dogs, um, they could get hurt by the wildlife, um, and, uh, the owners. So it just frustrates me uh because you know I have a 90 lb uncooperative golden lab that you know I have to drag everywhere on a leash and here are these people that just let him go. So I'm speaking as not the mayor but as a fellow citizen I guess you know so but thank you for that. Any other comments? Okay. City attorney report. Mayor.

Mayor and council. I just wanted to give you an update on the town center building height waiver task force. So they had their initial meeting on April 15th where they received some background information about the town center plan and council's direction from your resolution for the work that they're doing. They have their second meeting tomorrow night um upstairs in Wam River 1 and two uh where they will be looking at different options and kind of discussing their initial reactions to them, what additional information they might need. Um, from that discussion, we will be uh presenting at work session at uh planning commission on May 13th and city council on May 18th and then the we plan for the town center task force to have their last meeting on May 19th. So, uh just wanted to give you all that update.

Okay. Thank you. Anything further of staff? No. Okay, we're journ at 9:44 p.m. Ready for urban renewal. Oh It's a short It's a short agenda. There I There. I remembered one thing but forgot another. Okay. I'm tired. Yeah. Hold on a second, folks.

Yeah. Okay. Are you ready? Yeah, I'm ready. Sorry.

Okay. I called to order the meeting of the Urban Renewal Agency for April 20th, 2026 at 9:45 p.m. Will the city recorder please call the role? Member Shavelin here. Member Barry here. Member Cunningham here. Member Skull here. Chair O'Neil here. Member Barry, can I have a motion approve the following order of agenda? I move to approve the following order of the agenda. Is there a second? Second. Motion has been made and seconded. All those in favor say I.

I. Motion passes 5. Is there any citizen input? Seeing none, uh, next item is our consent agenda. Will the city attorney please read the items on consent? You are a resolution number 358, a resolution of the city of Wilsonville Urban Renewal Agency authorizing the city manager to execute a construction contract with Knife River Corporation Northwest for the construction of the Brown Road Improvements Project, capital improvement project number 4216 and minutes of the February 2, 2026 urban renewal agency meeting. Okay. Thank you. Member Barry, can I have a motion to adopt the consent agenda? I move to adopt the consent agenda as read. Is there a second? Second.

Motion has been made and seconded. Any further discussion? Okay, seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Motion passes 5. We're journ at 9:46 p.m. Turbo