City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. It is 7 o'clock. I will call our meeting of February 23rd to order and we'll start with a flag salute which councelor President Sha, will you please lead us in? Sir, I aliance 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. Thank you. Thank you. We have a roll call, please. Councelor Cornwell, present. Councelor Bravo, here. Councelor Shab here. Councelor Wil here. Councelor Kantu. Councelor Ghava here.

Mayor Lteran

here. you. Um I am not aware of any announcements. Am I Are we missing anything with council Kantto out before I move on? No. Then I do not have any appointments tonight. Moving on. I do not have any community government organizations to uh listen to. Um I do have a couple things under my item reflection. uh being the end near the end of uh Black History Month, I want to recognize the passing of Reverend Jesse Jackson and uh thank he and his family for he's quite a an activist that fought hard and long for peace and sorry he's gone. He did it a lot for for our country. And uh the other thing is I want to recognize the uh groundbreaking that we had since our last meeting down at at Subtle Park and thank the city staff for being very involved doing a great job getting that ready. But two of the biggest projects that the city has ever undertaken is the uh renovation of the pool and the adding of community center and the uh the future look of settlemire park and I feel very good at the whole city should feel very good about where we are what it took to uh to get this going and uh what's going to go on here in the in the next year plus to uh to get it finished. Um, and so I'm very very proud the city's stance and position being able to pull this together and we all know it hasn't been easy and it's certainly fairly expensive, but uh, but it's a good move and it's going to do a lot and say a lot for the future of Woodburn when we're talking about the metropolis putting a commitment into downtown. That's what we're doing. We're building

amenities. We're looking at a strong anchor for south end of downtown and it will do a lot for the future of Woodburn. I know that I have gotten a few people have called and questioned me about the a strong concern about some trees that are being cut down there. I'm sure some other counselors probably have heard it too. And uh I I know that a lot of time and effort went into the preservation of trees. Wburn at times been a tree city and we all love trees, but for a project like this, they have to be looked at. I know that uh and and uh looking at what's best for the project works well still with the with the park atmosphere. I know that um we had arborists that have gone down there and and looked at at at trees. Some trees it just makes sense to take them out for health reasons because of sidewalks that that are coming up or possible sidewalks where they're going to be. um other trees just the location of them with what's planned for the community center unfortunately it makes sense. Um, but the backside is so we've had arborists, we've had contractors, we've had architects, we've had very trained city staff that uh has dealt with a lot of these issues look at this, look at these and done the best they can to preserve and protect what we can. But the reality is that there will be at some point a significant tree or bush or shrub or dandelion that's going to be removed. and uh it's in the best of this project. The back side of this is what we're going to do at the end. We're looking at over 60 trees being planted there uh afterwards and uh with with a large landscaping budget. Uh and so I'm excited about about that. And yes, it

might take a while for trees to grow, but again, this is a long range project. And I think it's going to benefit the city for uh for many many years in the future. So uh again that's my point on that. Uh any comments? Exciting. Yeah,

it is. It really is. So moving on then. I do not have any proclamations. Uh we do have uh some presentations. The le I'm going to cancel legislative update. uh we're not quite through with the short session and we will probably at our next meeting have a uh have our exact briefs come in. So we'll start with our quarterly investment report and uh hear how good we're doing hopefully. Mayor, members of the city council, Tony Turley, your finance director. Um just we're going to have somebody new that you haven't seen before that will be presenting to us tonight. Her name is Ryan Catcher. Um Lauren is going to at this point in her life pursue other things um of a good nature, not not a negative, but we have a new um person that will be presenting to us on a regular basis and that's Ryan. So he's here with us um online and I will turn over the time to him.

So Lauren is no longer with the firm. I I don't know whether her last day has officially come. Ryan can can inform us of that. Um but I know that it's coming. And so Ryan is taking over her um her role for us. Thank you. And so Ryan, without further ado, I will turn it over to you to do the quarterly presentation. Thank you very much for that introduction. Uh is my video coming through and is my sound coming through? Look good.

Wonderful. Okay. Love it when that goes uh seamlessly. So, uh as uh Mr. Turley said, my name is Ryan Catcher. I am very happy to be able to present to you this evening. And that is accurate. Uh Lauren Brandt, who uh based on my associations with her and what I've seen and observed, uh has done a phenomenal job in this position is uh moving on. She's retiring from the company. Uh she is still with the company now. Her official retirement date is March 31st. So, if you've had associations with her, she'll still be checking uh her uh email address, her work email address at least until the end of next month. Uh that being said, I'm very uh pleased, very excited to be able to step into this position and uh support you any way I can. I've been to your city offices a couple of times now, met with Mr. Turley, and uh am committed to support you uh the best I can while I'm in this position. Um, before I dive into things, let me just confirm. I understand I'm on the agenda. I don't want to take more time than has been allotted to me. I've been given the advice to take less than 20 minutes. Is that consistent with your expectations and what we have time for in the agenda tonight or would anyone like to amend that uh any further?

20 minutes will be fine as long as it's all positive.

Very good. Well, I I better I better cut to the chase then because I can tell what's on your mind. It is positive. The portfolio is performing very well. Uh lock lock step with uh benchmark expectations and uh just as importantly, maybe more importantly within policy both of Oregon State statute and city of Woodburn investment polic policy. So, I will tell you that upfront. Nothing to be nervous about, nothing to be anxious about, but of course I will happily dive into uh all of the details around that. I know you have some printouts uh in front of you. And let me do one last technological test. I don't want to tempt fate here, but I'm going to share my screen

and if I could get uh confirmation from you uh when you see my screen. Excellent. Okay, we're betting a thousand tonight. I'm very happy to hear that. So um the presentation I give you uh this evening will be consistent with formats you've received in the past. Uh that is a two-part presentation. One part on an update on the economy and the second part uh which is the part I'm sure you're most concerned about which is the performance of your specific portfolio. Um I can uh shorten the economic update part if that's less interesting. um you just let me know. I'll keep my uh eyes and ears open and uh stop me or move me along. Uh that being said, I I would like to give just a very condensed economic update for you. What you have in that packet, what you have in that printout is not a condensed uh economic update. It's very detailed. There's a lot of text in there. There's a lot of numbers in there. That'll be great reading. That'll be great reference. I don't want to read that to you. What I would like to do is summarize some of the most relevant aspects of the economy in just a couple of slides. So, I'm going to put um I'm going to put some pictures in front of you and I'm going to speak to these pictures. They're charts related uh related to inflation, related to uh the labor market and related to interest rates and the Federal Reserve. Okay? So we try to keep our market updates focused on those things. As a fiduciaries of a fixed income uh investment portfolio, we are laser focused on interest rates. Of course, it is the Federal Reserve that has the biggest influence on interest rates, especially in the short term. Uh the Federal Reserve

has a dual mandate. Their dual mandate is to uh control prices by not letting inflation get out of control and to keep a strong labor market uh by keeping unemployment low. And the tool that they have uh to control those two mandates is uh decisions that they make around short-term uh investment rates which directly affect our portfolios. So again, that's why we're looking at the Federal Reserve, that's why we're watching inflation, that's why we're watching labor. Uh so I'm just going to take us through I think literally one, two, three, four slides here that are going to describe uh uh data points in that area. Uh the first one we're going to talk about here is unemployment. I talked about the Federal Reserve's dual mandate. They want to keep the labor market strong. When unemploy when unemployment starts to rise, okay, they try to strengthen or boost the economy by lowering rates. Okay. So, we look at these numbers to try to understand what moves the Federal Reserve might be making in the near term. These graphs here show uh the unemployment rate bottoming out in 2023 and steadily increasing since then. Okay. Chart on the left is unemployment rate. That trend is steadily increasing. Chart on the right is uh just a different view at the labor market. That is the labor force participation rate. We want to see increased participation. The chart is showing decreasing participation over time. Okay. So looking at just one part of the Federal Reserve's dual mandate, we see an indicator which would suggest the Federal Reserve should lower rates to strengthen and boost that economy and uh bring that unemployment rate down. The second part of the mandate is to control prices through inflation. And so this chart here shows inflation over time.

You see uh on the left side of this chart going back to January of 23 when we were coming down from uh recent record high inflation. We all remember the pain of that time and it has trended down since then down to around the 2.5% mark where it is today. So we see unemployment going up and we see inflation coming down. Both of those should be signs to the Federal Reserve to lower rates. However, as I'm about to show you, uh there are divergent opinions within the Federal Reserve about which direction Federal rates should go going forward. This slide right here is the Fed dot plot. Each of these dots represents a member of the Federal Open Market Committee and their indication of their opinion of where interest rates should be over time. So again, one dot per member of the Federal Open Market Committee stating their opinion on where interest rate should be. Starting with the end of 2025, you see consistency of opinion that rates should be where they are at 3.7%. We saw two rate cuts uh to wrap up 2025 uh in the fourth quarter in October and December. But going forward, you see historically divergent opinions uh with some members of the committee uh voting to aggressively lower rates, other members of the committee saying let's hold steady and others saying well let's lower rates modestly. The only thing that they are consistent on is worth pointing out is nobody is saying hey let's raise rates over time. The divergence in opinion is hold steady. uh lower slightly with some outliers saying let's aggressively lower rates. Now, if

you take all of that data and aggregate it and draw a line to try to see a trend, that's what we have right here, which tells us in this slide um the message that is being uh interpreted by the market right now, which is we expect rates to be cut about one more time in 2026 and possibly again in 2027 to bring us to a long-term run rate of uh 3% for interest rates. Um I will wrap up the market update by talking about sector performance and this will be a good segue uh into your portfolio which again I will say is lockep with benchmark and within uh city policy and within state statute. So all good news. Uh it is relevant to look at this slide. Um, this shows us how different sectors have performed over time. It shows a 10-year average and then what's happened this year. This is not annualized. That's why you see those rates so low. US Treasury, that is our best proxy for a risk-free rate of return. And anytime you invest outside of the risk-free rate of return, you should expect to be rewarded for that. And this shows us where those rewards lie. Okay. federal agencies. There is some reward based on the current market for investing in federal agencies. You do have exposure to federal agencies though slight asset back securities. Greater reward you don't have exposure to that. Uh I don't think that's within our policy. We're not looking at asset back securities. What we will pay attention to however is uh corporates right here. There is um on a relative standpoint uh significant opportunity uh within the corporate space. you do have some exposure and you do have opportunity to have more exposure. But I'll just uh kind of call this out as it

uh is relevant to your personal portfolio which we are about to see right now. Uh before I open up your portfolio, let me pause on the market update and see if there are any questions or anything you'd like me to research further and get back to you on. Any questions from the council from Tony? You got anything? No. No, we're fine. Go ahead.

Okay. Very good. Let me get to the meat of the matter. Okay. Uh portfolio review. City of Woodburn. Uh as I stated before, I will state officially here uh that compliance uh and our portfolio managers have reviewed the investments, compared them to the investment uh policy statement as furnished by city of Woodburn and found all investments to be within uh policy and therefore uh compliant. Here is a snapshot of your portfolio. Okay, we manage uh just short of $75 million of City of Woodburn funds. Okay, that is comprised of just short of $74 million in actual securities uh plus just short of $800,000 in acred interest. that is interest that has acred but just hasn't been paid out yet uh based on uh predetermined fixed income um distribution dates. Uh the effective duration that speaks to uh the maturities uh that we are invested in and it speaks to sensitivity uh to changes in interest rates. You can see that uh your portfolio duration is 1.34 years which matches exactly the benchmark. We like to see that uh you will see this 4% number and this 3.6% number. The 4 the 4% number is your yield at cost. Uh that means that is the return that your portfolio is generating today. That is the actual the real return. Yield at market is a hypothetical. That is that is the rate you would be earning if we were to purchase these exact same securities today. Okay. And what it means is we are uh we bought these securities at a good time because they're outperforming uh today's prices. Um and then uh bottom line your uh net

portfolio credit quality is double A which is of course consistent with uh city of Woodburn uh policy. As far as your sector allocation goes very heavily US treasury. 92% of your portfolio is comprised of US treasuries. Of course, uh statute and policy allows you to go up to 100%. So, we're close to that number uh with uh uh lesser exposure to corporates and even lesser to federal agencies. We see more opportunity in corporates than we do in federal agencies. Uh so you'll see that number uh above uh above peer sectors and uh you should see that number hold steady or increase going forward. Uh but it's not going to increase significantly. Again that is to stay within the bounds set by your policy. Uh the policy allows up to 10% uh but it also mandates uh that each security be rated double A or higher. and in a zero to threeyear benchmark uh that's going to limit our exposure to corporates. Uh the bottom left chart here breaks down uh the credit quality of the investments we hold. Uh I said before your portfolio requires double A or above and you will see 1% at single A. Uh that's because your investment policy uh allows for single A credit ratings on commercial paper and that's what that single A rating represents right there. So uh there is a single A and it and it is within your policy. Um still talking about duration. Haven't gotten to performance against benchmark quite yet but this just shows um broken down 0 to one year 1 to two year 2 to 3 year. uh we are step for step in line with uh benchmark. Uh this chart here uh breaks down

because you are 92% treasuries. There's not a long list to explore here, but it does show by name uh uh your different um uh bond exposures. Uh you have some exposure to federal home loan banks within the federal agency sector. uh you have uh exposure to one name here in commercial paper that's a single A rating reference before and then as far as your corporates go uh some very familiar names there all with a double A rating or higher. Uh and then this shows uh this shows how that has changed over time. Uh very consistent portfolio not a lot of history. uh I think performance um tracking began in uh end of Q1 2023. Uh this uh particular set of data only shows 2025 has held steady for the most part. You will see a jump in uh corporate exposure from 1.9 million in Q3 to 2.6 million in Q4. Uh other than that we've maintained balances with a heavy allocation toward treasuries. uh that jump you see from Q2 to Q3 that shows a cash injection during that time that was put almost entirely into treasuries. Uh and then this uh just shows uh sector allocation uh for fourth quarter loan. As I mentioned uh the the gray bar is going to show um uh securities as they expire. The blue bar shows uh where we put that money as they expire. So treasuries has held steady and as I said before slightly higher allocation toward corporates as we've seen opportunity there again a rel relatively small portion of your portfolio but we are capturing opportunity there where we see

it. Okay. And this uh slide is the bottom line. Again, not uh a lot of historical data. We are just short of three complete years. So, we don't show data for three years. We don't show data for 5 years. In the next quarter, we will because we will have uh an entire three-year uh data set to present to you. But as you can see most recently uh in uh in the last quarter we are lock step with the benchmark. Uh going back one year uh we underperformed by a single basis point relative to benchmark. But then if you go uh all the way back to inception just shy of three years now we are outperforming the benchmark by five basis points.

Good. And to wrap it up, this is uh summarizes total earnings. That's the trajectory we like to see. That's the trend we like to see since we've taken over management of your portfolio. Uh total earnings has been uh just short of $6.5 million comprised primarily of interest earned, which is what we like to see. Uh you won't see you won't ever see a a high or significant number here in realized gains or losses. That's because uh we hold to maturity. Um so this is a strong number, positive number and it's coming from uh the areas we would expect to see earnings uh based on our contract with you and the investment policy that you have provided us. All of the remaining slides here are for your reference and for your reading. Uh broken down by QIP uh by coupon uh each and every single one of our holdings with you to include treasuries and corporates and agencies and uh the last few pages here are uh for compliance purposes and include all relevant and needed disclosures. So that being said, I will pause. I will be happy to turn back to any slide you would like to take another look at and uh answer and take any questions you might have.

Okay. Thank you, Ryan. I mayor, if I may. Sure.

I I just want to remind the council that this is our discretionary investment or non-discretionary investment pool. We also have a little less than $60 million in the LGIP, the short-term um investment pool with the state. And so our combined investments are a little less than 130 million. So when you look at the percentages that are invested here, take into account that we also have the LGIP which is in part of which is part of our investment portfolio from the city and in the investment policy, but it's not represented in the presentation of these slides. So we actually have secure money much higher than the the 92% in and in and where those investments are. So

thank you. Good points. Anyone on the council who have any questions? So Tony, are you happy with uh what made almost $6.5 million in interest and change in market? Remember that 6.5 million is just what has come through from um our investments with PFM asset management.

There's an additional amount that has come through um that would be in the neighborhood to $45 million in that same period of time from the LGIP. And yes, we are very satisfied with the return that we we we are getting. The only thing that we would look at if if we wanted to expand our investment policy is there's we could invest we could invest up to a 5-year window instead of a threeyear window. There's risk involved with that in a time when it's when invest when when interest rates are going up.

If you're long-term investments, you can't take advantage of those. But in a time where interest rates are projected to go down, having a longer window of of investments that are further out could be a benefit to the city. There is risk involved with that. That would be the only thing that I would look at is if we were to choose to open another 2-year window for investments. It would again it it creates stability because you have a longer window in a downturn where you're not impacted by those um quick changing interest rates. And of course, the city's cash position is a story to tell. I mean, when I started, this was very different. U Tony and I like to talk a little bit about just Tony's time here at the city and kind of what he seen transpired from the cash position of the city. Go ahead and tell the story. It's a good story. So I started almost 6 years ago and our total investments were somewhere south of 60 million um approximately maybe a little more or less than that but in that in that range. So in the six years we've over doubled our cash position for cash and investments. And a large portion of that has to do with the development activity that's going on in the city. um you know we've we have a lot of that money you know it sounds like wow the the money the city has all this money now that that they can use well that's tied up in SDC's right because our transportation SDC's have in have increased our um park SDC's have increased our you know all of street SDC all of those SDC's water sewer all of those have increased with the activity and those are long-term investments right th those balances are restricted we don't have access to them for general operations. The same is true with um the activity or the funds that have grown in the water and and wastewater um funds,

right? We've we are trying to pay as we go for capital projects at this point in time, but we know we need to have money in those funds to that are restricted for those projects. The general fund has grown in fund balance, but not at that level. The other positive story about this then is that that money goes to work in the community. That pays for infrastructure improvement. It pays for transportation improvements. It pays for things that serves the community, but it's not coming directly out of the taxpayers's pocket, which I think is right.

Which is which is a good which is good. Yeah. Not only just interest earnings, but also those th those restricted SDC dollars that are reflected in these cash balances will go to make infrastructure improvements that the taxpayers aren't paying for in property taxes. Okay, Ryan, thank you for your report. Uh, very uh very positive, very good. Appreciate it. Please give uh Lauren our best in her next uh position and thank her for her time and help with our city. I sure will. Thank you very much. It's been a pleasure. Have Have a lovely evening. Thank you. You, too.

Thank you, Tony. Moving on, we are going to hear from our Woodman public libraries and what kind of good years we've had last year.

Good evening, city council mayor. Jessica, community service director. Um, I'm going to just do a quick intro of Mike Jansen, our um, library manager. um and then get out of his way to show all the amazing things he's done for the past year and his team. So, um I have the privilege of overseeing um supervising Mike and who makes my job very easy. Um and he does so many amazing things. He's been with us going on 10 years um with the city in different capacities and in his role as a library manager for the past five. So, um I might add some additional kudos, but I'm going to let him get to his presentation and get out of the way. So, thanks.

Well, thank you for having me. My name is Mike Jansen. Um, I've been the library manager, well, it's been about four and a half years. And I just have a real short presentation about kind of introduce the library. Um, everybody knows kind of what the library does, but you might not know all the ins and outs. And so trying to give you a little bit of background slide. Um, so our mission is we serve our community. Uh, we provide free and equitable access to information. We inspire lifelong learning. and we're cultivating an environment of community engagement. And hopefully as we go through this slideshow that you'll see that we're meeting those goals or we're we're meeting those missions. Um the other thing I'd like to I guess before we go too far is if um anybody has any questions afterwards, please feel free to to reach out to me at the library. I'm happy to do that if something's incomplete or you have followup.

Um we're part of the Chamea Cooperative um uh regional library service. We're one of 17 libraries. So that means we share resources with um all of them. Uh from Salem to McMinnville, Silver Falls, um pretty much the valley. Um we we are able to share um books with them, DVDs. Um and they the the cooperative um is out of Chamea and they they oversee um kind of our our computer system for the catalog and help us transfer the the books back and they kind of serve as a a policym um body for the libraries slide. Um so a lot of the data that I'm going to share with you today is from the 2425 annual report from the state library. Um this is an interesting um snapshot I think of all the libraries and you can if you get in there and and look you can compare our libraries to other libraries. We're the 18th largest library in the state. Um so but and makes us pretty busy. Um slide. So our general operating fund is about 1.2 million. It's about 3.1% of the overall fund. um we receive uh 1.1 million from the city and about 100,000 from CCRS and that that that changes this year I think is quite a bit more from CCLs just the way they do their calculations. Um our our salaries and benefits are 762,000. We spend about $40,000 on our collection. So books, DVDs, um and the like. And then our programming budget is about $18,000. Um over the last year we've received a number of grants. Um we've um Allison Byers, who's our outreach librarian, applied for the ALA um capacity grant. We were one of 17 libraries nationwide to receive it. Um and we've been using

uh specifically that money has gone to citizenship classes and we've added in that ESL class um on Saturday. So now we have two two opportunities for English language learners. Um, we also were lucky enough to, um, all the Carnegie libraries received $10,000 grant. Um, but us being we're we're one of the original Carnegie libraries. There's about 1500 of them um, still in operation. Um, and uh, we just got the check recently, so we'll be using that um, for some improvements and some outreach. Um, we also received a early learning grant from Marian County. And then the state of Oregon readyto read grant. We receive that every year. It's a grant we use for our summer reading programs um primarily to buy um uh books to to give out to to children and teens and to provide programming for the summer. Um we also Allison wrote a teen internship grant. So, we had a teen intern last well it's kind of last year but and then um she's also been using we received a Woodburn Area Association for seniors program there there was a nonprofit they um they were disbanding and so in that process they gave us about $1,000 to use for adult programs and we've added two adult art programs every month and those have been well attended and um we're going to now move our budget around so we can continue to offer that program because it's been so successful. Slide. Um la in that last year we uh checked out 49,180 print items about 5,500 video items, audio items about 1,800 and uh digital items about well 11 that can't be right. Um it says 111,000 but that I know is not right. So

I don't my apologies. Um it's more Yeah. And we added um we added in digital like books and media about 2200 items. Uh we have a number of digital resources that are available on our website. Um Canopy is very similar to a Netflix type uh resource where you can download it. You get tickets and you can download certain movies every month. the the kids programming on that is is free though. So, um it has a lot of PBS type things. Uh the CCRS recently added CA Comics Plus, which is just a way to read comic books and manga online. Um so, a lot of these digital resources are provided by um CCRS um not not coming out of our direct budget. Um, ancestry was and looking at genealogy. Novelist plus is a is just a database for finding new books. Chilton's auto repair. The research Dale databases are from the state. Um, just more research databases and and answer as well, which is a way if any sort of reference question you have, you can answer you can um reach out to the state and they'll they'll help you with those questions. And then recently we added with our budget Mango Languages um which is a language learning app very similar to Dolingo um and which we're just about 6 months in. Um we're happy with the the number of people that have signed up. It's just kind of another um one of the requests that we've had from a lot of patrons is to provide English speaking class or classes for to learn Spanish. Um, and that's a little bit harder to do than classes to learn English. Um, so the the the Mango is a kind of a a way to provide those resources. Slides. Um,

we also offer a library of things. So you can check out um um binoculars, uh, uh, cameras, just um, telescopes, uh, some things, just physical things. It's a trend in libraries and we we jumped on board with that. And we don't offer a lot, but it's a nice way to um well, I like to say like if if for um I guess specifically like there's a a metal detector, it's a nice way to use a metal detector once so you know you never have to buy it. Um saving your community a lot of money. Um we offer cultural passes. Those have changed over time. Um we just added the Halley Ford Museum of Art. The Gilbert House Museum unfortunately went away. These are all we have to individually kind of do these. And then we also have a seed library in in our library. So if you um coming spring's coming so get you some seeds and that's that's maintained by us. Slide. Um we have 8,600 registered users. We added 1300 users last year about 1400 users the year before. Every three years if somebody doesn't use their cards they come off the roll. So, we're constantly having to add people because if you add a a second grader, if they don't use it by the time they get to fifth grade, well, they're no longer on the books. So, um we spent a lot of time doing that. We um we checked out 27,000 adult materials last year, 4,000 teen, 3,400 children's materials, uh about heat content about 1,900. So total first-time checkouts is close to 90,000 items.

Mike, how's that compare to other libraries? I don't know. Are you busy? You know, we're busy. Um, we're busy. We're probably depending on our door, our door counters have been difficult. They're kind of a difficult thing. Um, but we, you know, after COVID, we lost um we lost some hours and we lost some staffing. Um but we we keep we're kind of busy constantly. It's it's somewhere between 350 and 500 people are in there every day. Yeah.

Um depending on the time of year depending on um yeah the day. So, we borrowed about 22,000 items from other libraries and then um or sorry, we loaned about 22,000 of our items to other libraries and we received about 16,000 and then we circulated to non-residents of Woodburn about 40,000 items. So, an item is normally like a book book. Okay. DVD um

primarily those are the the two big ones. Um we also have audio books. So books on CD or um there's things called playaways which is a book on a a device and that would include like checking out um cultural passes. It would include library of things

as well. Uh we offered uh 253 programs last year and with uh about 2,300 people in attendance. So you see a list of all the different teen types of programs we've done. our children's programs. We offer weekly story times in English and Spanish. We offer monthly queen club. Uh summer reading kickoff is our big um event of the year and that'll happen in June. Um slide. Um for programming for all adults and all ages, we had um we brought in um this a charo exhibit last year that was um pretty nice. Um, we had a a light installation put in um from this gentleman is 100 libraries installation. So, you come in when it's sunny, you're going to see some rainbows and that's been that's really been really nice. Um, we've offered we offer book groups, Spanish conversation, ESL classes, uh, monthly drop in tech that every every month we have four or five people coming in and getting help with their computers. um citizenship classes um and then uh wreath making we've done that the last four years Christmas aside um some ongoing we've added ongoing um bilingual citizenship class yoga's in the library now um ESL classes and the these are one-time offerings we offered this fall slide our summer reading program is kind of our biggest program um we register we kind of work with the school district for a lot of this. So, we register a bunch of kids at at their their summer school, 641, and then we register quite a few in the library. We had um more finishers this year than than ever. Um and that finishers means they've read for 20 hours. The idea is you read for

20 hours, that'll prevent the summer slide. Um and really they really what we want out of our summer reading program is to create habits where um parents uh and kids have a reason to come back every week. So you build the habit of coming to the library, you build the habit of checking out and hopefully that continues when you get into school and your your life is different when school starts, right? Um slide. um our space is used for a lot of different community um partners um from community health um city programs we've had in the library. So you can see some of these are annual events, some of them are weekly or monthly um or by monthly. We have uh community cleanup day. We we run out of the library but we we have a Red Cross book mobile. The book mo the book mobile was here last week. um slide. So we had 46 outside groups in the library in this last year and we had nine city-led groups. So we have a monthly shell club. We have homeschoolers that are in every week. We have Goodwill ESL classes. We um run Santa Inc. out of the library. So we're we're busy. Um the rooms are um booked um constantly. Slide. Oh, that's the one that didn't get um outreach. Um uh in 2020, uh we applied for a grant for a bookmobile. Um it was ARPA funding from the state library. We received about $100,000 and we um we bought a truck and we outfitted it and we put some books in it and now we're taking it all over um the city. Um we take it not only the city but we go to Jervis. We'll go to their elementary school. We go um North County. We'll go to um um North Marian. Um a lot of this is provided during uh the summer. Um it's not this this time

of year is not too great to be out in it, but uh monthly we're taking it to the Trinity School um which is out towards Jervis. Um so it's just a nice way to get a lot of people signed up for library cards and bring books to where they are. You did a great job outfitting it. It really what's shines when you Yeah, we're lucky. We're lucky. Yeah.

And I want to highlight really quick, sorry to interrupt, but um when we were looking when Mike received the grant, I think a normal, and correct me if I'm wrong, Mike, but a normal, if you were to outright buy a book deal, I think it was around $250,000, one that was all kind of built and ready to go, our grant was not that much. and Mike took upon himself to find contractors and other things to outfit a truck and he was able to do it within the grant um of the $100,000. So that's just a testament to his dedication to not only the library but this community showing that. So he did a lot of it himself and that

yeah it required some um ingenuity I suppose. Um so we're we're doing outreach to schools. We um our senior and adult outreach I think is really improved in the last uh two and a half years since um Allison Buyers started. Um we're monthly going to a number of the um the adult um centers and then um we also do homebound delivery to patrons that can't make it to the library. So um we it's it has um scaled up quite a bit. We're doing um slide. So, we um we're a staff of 8.5. We have 2,900 service hours. We answered 4200 reference questions and 7,000 miscellaneous. And that's probably low because we only keep track of it by checking off every time we've talked to people. And if you've been at the front desk at our library, you know that it sometimes gets busy enough that you you forget to um you can work for an hour and forget to that you've done it. Um we have uh 6,722 internet sections. So um we only right now we have six uh internet computers available for the public. That's down from years past and with the advent of like of cell phones and and smartphones, but they're still used all day long. Um all night also.

All night also. Um, our friends of the library group has grown quite a bit in the last 5 years. When I started, we had one friend of the library still. Um, and and and we had to kind of adjust our policies a little bit to get kind of more engagement. And we do have more can you explain what the friends of library is a little bit?

Yeah, the friends of the library is a a nonprofit group that exists to support um library programming primarily. Um, they do this primarily through book sales. uh we get uh we receive book donations from the community. They look through those donations. They um will get discard some of them, send others to Goodwill, but then they sell the the rainbow. They had a you know initially they I don't know that they had had a book sale in eight or nine years prior to uh my starting and then they were doing four a year. Thankfully we're down to two a year. um which is a little bit more manageable and you know they they bring in about probably 13 between 13 and $1,500 a year for us. Um right now their budget's about they have a about 12,000 in their budget. Um 56 people receive their friends newsletter and 678 people follow them on Friends and about 10 to 15 people show up for for meetings. So, it's just having more engagement, having more support, and um you know, one of our friends is in our space 3 days a week um building out our bookstore. She probably volunteers 15 to 20 hours every week for us. So, it it's nice to have um that involvement, but also that feedback because they tell me, "Oh, you need to do this or you need to do that." And and we can make those changes when they they occur. by um the city's made a lot of investments in the library in the last tech decade and I'm very grateful. Um we put in outdoor restrooms in 2018. Um we've updated landscaping in 20 2019, the library, they put the playground out there in 2019. Um we've been working on new exterior windows. We added a bookmobile. We have a new chiller for um which is quite a large investment. Um,

and we've last year we reupholstered our furniture, just kind of making everything a little bit sharper and a little bit nicer. We updated our men's restroom this year. Um, and then, uh, we're getting that new roof and, um, all these things, you know, the the roof is I was so grateful. Um, you know, it'll keep our books clean. Um, last year we lost some books to water damage from that. So, um, so thank you. I think that concludes all just kind of the basic rundown of what we've been doing. Any questions from council?

Is there anything else you need from us in the city? No, I mean I think I'll commit. Okay. Yeah. Uh I I I feel lucky to work with Jesse. He um he uh is very responsive and very supportive of of of the library and the services we provide. So, and you have a library board that you have for some guidance. Yeah, we do have an advisory board. Uh they meet uh four times a year. They It's full board. Yeah, we're a full board right now. We even have a team and we have a dean on the board finally.

Well, great. I I just again want to um give my praise to Mike and the staff. Um anytime you go into the library, they're just so gracious and so kind. Um and just some of those things are are maybe subtle, but even like the um the being able to check out going to the Evergreen Air Museum, that that's an expensive ticket. Um so be able to take your family there. I think they're $25 plus to get in for one person. And so um I've even checked those out for my family because it's, you know, you're you're in it. where and to get those experiences and these these subtle things and these touch points, you know, it's just um it's really continuing education and just a great place to be. So, just kudos to everyone over there, Alison, Mike, everyone who does a great job and Geraldin, the youth librarian. Um really privileged to have them part of our team. So, thank you.

Thank you. I hear compliments all the time about the library. Like Jesse said, you run a very good organization. So, thank you asset to Woodward. and we we we try to serve that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much.

Moving on. I'm six. I do not have any communications. Uh business from the public. This allows the public to introduce items from the council consideration that's not already scheduled on the agenda. Uh comment time would be limited to three minutes, but if anyone from the public would like to speak on a council item that is not already on the agenda, please come forward. Seeing no one, then we'll move on to the consent agenda. These are items that are on the consent agenda considered routine and be adopted by one motion. Any item may be removed for discussion at the request of council member. May we please have a city recorder read the items aloud that are on it.

The items on the consent agenda are as follows. Woodburn city council minutes of February 9th, 2026. Monthly financial report for January 2026. Liquor license application for Daisy's Bar and Grill and traffic enforcement report November 2025 through January 2026. Thank you. Any counselor wish to take anything off the consent agenda? I have a question regarding the liquor applications. Just a question. Just a question to clarify that this is this location, this Daisy's Bar is actually the same location as Rumors and all they're doing is switching ownerships. Yeah, I think that's that's what's in the

Yeah, cuz that little I think it was a daughter taking over bought out the father, right? I guess I'd like to hear a little bit more about Hello. Uh, council mess. My name is Andy Shadron, deputy chief with uh the Woodurn Police Department. I I apologize. Um I won't I may not be able to speak to too much specifics about that because I don't have the report in front of me today. Uh but yes, you are correct. Uh my understanding is that the daughter of the former owner is now um applying uh to be the new owner of the new establishment uh Daisies as you referenced there.

And yeah, and I noticed that they had a specific the Oregon legal about the previous oro not being involved in that location anymore. that's in the notes. Yeah. My understanding is that through a contract agreement with the lottery commission uh that they specifically have lottery machines that will be at that uh establishment. Specifically with that contract, they've spelled out that the previous uh owner or the father of the current or the new owner it was not is not to be allowed to be in any kind of um involvement whether that's through official or unofficial means. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. If there's nothing else, I would entertain a motion. I move to approve the consent agenda as presented. As read. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. Moved and seconded by Council Bravo to adopt the consent agenda as presented. All those in favor signify with an I. I. I.

Those opposed. Passes unanimously. Thank you. We do not have any table business. We do not have a public hearing tonight. Next up, I have council bill number 3297. Excuse me. Uh, council bill number 3290, a resolution approving referral to the electors of city of Woodburn on advisory question on whether the city council should consider passing legislation to implement 20 mph speed limit zones on local streets and residential districts. adopting a ballot title and explanatory statement and authorizing all steps necessary to effectuate this resolution.

Thank you. Council bill 3297 has been duly introduced and as the resolution requires one reading and one reading only. May we have that reading by title only, please, if there's no objection. Council Bill number 3297, a resolution approving referral to the electors of the city of Woodburn, an advisory question on whether the city council should consider passing legislation to implement 20 mph speed limit zones on local streets and residential districts, adopting a ballot title and explanatory statement, and authorizing all steps necessary to effectuate this resolution.

Thank you. So, we had a discussion on this at our last meeting and we asked the uh our city councelor to come back to us with a uh plan to put this on the next agenda. Uh it's the effort is to see if the public agrees this something that might maintain a lower speed speeding in some of the roads in Woodburn, but certainly not all of them. Um, do you have anything to add to that?

No, I'm just happy to answer any questions. Um, I think the, uh, actual ballot title, um, is very similar to what was included in the draft version of your last meeting. Um, just some slight adjustments to language um, just to make sure that we're within the required word counts for uh, pursuant to state law. And then I did include um a longer explanatory statement um that will appear in the um not on the ballot but in the ballot book that Thank you. Any questions? Further discussion? May we have a roll call vote please? Heather. Councelor Bravo. Yes. Councelor Shaw. Yes. Councelor Wilk.

Yes. Councelor Cornwell. Yes. Councelor Fhova. Yes. say council bill 3297 has been duly passed. Thank you. Next up, we'll move on to council bill number 3298. Council bill number 3298, a resolution authorizing execution of a collective bargaining agreement between the city of Woodward and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, um, AFSCME, local 642, for a contract beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30th, 2027.

Thank you. Council Bill 3298 has been duly introduced and as resolution requires reading, one reading only. May we have that by title only. There's no objections. Council bill number 3298, a resolution authorizing execution of a collective bargaining agreement between the city of Woodburn and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, ASME, Local 642, for a contract beginning July 1st, 2025, and ending June 30th, 2027. Thank you. Do we have a staff report?

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. think I'd just start by introducing Chris Kilmer who's uh who negotiated this on the city side. But before Chris uh takes over, I I do want to just thank the bargaining teams that worked through this. This was a particularly difficult contract to negotiate. There's lots of pressures in lots of places, as you might imagine, uh to reach agreement. Uh Chris headed our collective bargaining. Uh Mel Greg was on our team. Jesse was on our team. Curtis uh was on our Oh, Jim was on our team, not Curtis. I glued him out. I guess he's watching. So, um yeah, he doesn't know.

Uh and then also the the the Indians team, too. Uh you know, these things are not always easy to do. Uh but I know that a lot of effort went into getting this deal done. So, I'll turn it over to Chris if he has anything he'd like to say and then we can answer any questions council might have.

Yeah. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, uh, members of city council. Chris Kilmer, your assistant city attorney. Um, so I'll just give some quick background. Around May of last year, we began negotiations with ASKME to um, enter into a new collective bargaining agreement. The collective bargaining agreement uh, expired in July of last year. Um, we had probably five or six meetings. Um, they all went fairly well. Uh and we kind of had reached a tentative agreement um in about August, but unfortunately um there were some hiccups uh with getting that agreement rat ratified on the ask me side of things. Uh and so we ended up going back to the bargaining table and uh eventually ended up working with a mediator from the employment relations board out of the state uh to help us kind of uh get over the line with the contract that's before you this evening. Um so as Scott mentioned um a little bit rocky at times uh but um these are these are challenging issues. You know you're looking at every aspect of uh the employment contract. You're uh looking at compensation which is a highly emotional issue for a lot of people in a uncertain time. Um, so the city's goal all along was to reach a uh contract that was within the city's budget, but also uh provided some certainty to our represented employees and um provided fair compensation obviously and fair wage increases over the life of the contract. Um we're very happy with where the contract ended up. Uh it's well within budget. It falls within the city's budget priorities. Um it's uh it's a it's a good deal. I'll just call out a couple of different things. So, the compensation piece was pretty straightforward. It's a 3% um increase uh going back retro to the uh start of the contract, which is July of 2025, and

then a 3% increase starting again in July of 2026, along with some market adjustments that were mutually agreed upon for some positions that are um just behind market rate in general. Uh and then there are a couple of kind of unique things. One in particular I really want to call out that's new is um we added a volunteer leave uh port uh section into the approved leaves uh that the city allows. Um this was initially an idea that I think came about from the previous ask me president um who had seen it done uh with other agreements and um you know the city of Woodburn we obviously are a big supporter of volunteer work um you know there's a lot of volunteer work that gets done in this community and so we were looking to try and find a creative way in which we could uh encourage that work um in a way that would you know allow people to continue to be compensated but you know um do that important volunteer work in the community as well and recognize how important that work is to this community. So that's a new provision within the contract. Um we're very happy with it. We think it's going to encourage volunteerism and um you know something that's really important to us. And then other than that, um there was a lot of just housekeeping stuff. Um bringing things up to date with modernizations in Oregon state law. Um and uh that's that's about it. So I'm available for any questions you might have. Any questions? No.

Thank you. Thanks for your good job. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate the work that went into this, too. It's never easy to put an agreement together. So, um, before we vote on it, we were all given a different sheet or appendix A, page 43, which I think we need to add into the agreement instead of what was there. So, so with that, we have a roll call vote, please. Councelor Behava, yes. Councelor Cornwell, yes. Councelor Wilk, yes. Councelor Shaw, yes. Councelor Bravo, yes.

The council bill 3298 has been duly passed. Thank you. Next up, we have a construction contract for 202688 curb ramp retrofit project.

Uh, good evening, Mr. Mayor, city council. Curtis Stoultz, public works director. Um, pretty straightforward projects. We have three locations where we're doing ADA improvements to comply with current ADA standards um and to you know aid in the movement of pedestrians in a safe way. Um all three of these projects uh came in under the engineers estimate um and we feel very confident with the 11 bids that we received on these projects. Um, one of these projects will have a pedestrian island or a refuge in the center of the roadway at Constitution and Tuck Willa. And the other two are basically just improvements made to the uh sidewalk area at the corners on the intersections. Um we don't plan on having any bullouts um per se as we have put in other areas to aid in uh slowing down traffic, but um these are just pretty straightforward modifications that we do. Uh we try to keep our um ADA improvements around the dollar amount that we have budgeted. So that's pretty much the um report.

Okay. Any questions? Thank you. See, you got quite a few bids on this. People want to come to work here. We uh we're finding out that we've got a lot of projects as with the pool pool project or the community center that uh we've got a lot of people wanting to bid on um municipal projects.

Any questions on this project? Then I would entertain a motion to adopt it. Excuse me. Um I move to award the construction contract for the 20268 curve ramp retrofit project to the lowest responsible bidder, Civil West Construction LLC, in the amount of $97,96763. Staff recommends approving an additional $40,000 for this project as a contingency for change orders that may arise during construction. Is there a second?

Second. Been moved and seconded by council Cornwell. All in favor signify with an I. I. I. Opposed. Same. Passes. Thank you. Next up, we have community center event space naming adoption and naming rights funding agreement.

All right. Good. Good evening, mayor and city council. Again, Jesse Cuomo, community services director. So, um, the item before you tonight is, um, a recommendation to appro approve the propo proposed name, um, for the Mil Creek Community Center event space. Um, it' be Berlingham Community Hall and authorize the city administrator to enter into that funding agreement. And so um as you all know back in October um we went through or prior to October we went through a naming process named several park locations as well as some the community center and some interior spaces within the community center. Um during that process um we kind of spoke a little bit about the u possibility of um leaving the larger space of the event space um open for naming possible possible naming rights. And so um currently that event space that will serve about 180 people um when open can be divided into three different spaces. Those spaces are broken down into named as Kalpuya, Settletomire and um Medina and then we also named the fitness space. But we um having that ability to um present that as an opportunity for um sponsorship or naming rights. Um we were able to have conversations with Birmingham Trust which really kind of aligned with what I think we were hoping to see in a naming rights of that location. You know, local trust has local ties um and really has invested in this community over several um several decades. And so I was pleased to have great conversations with them and then come up to an agreement for naming rights of the facility at this wall. Um this funding is $200,000 provided over 5 years um with the naming rights for 10. Um and then they also want an opportunity to renew those naming rights, too. So at the end of the contract, um they want to be able to renew. Um and then any new funds that were to go into it, they want to see those go back. if they were to renew um

go back into just Woodburn community services, whatever that need may be at that time. And so this I think provides us a nice additional push in actual um kind of closing the gap for the community center and the furniture, pictures and equipment, but it also allows us another um funding source for operations as we go those next probably four years. Um once the facility is open, it just provides kind of a nice little revenue boost to as we're doing operations for the new facility, which um we're looking at possibly having an expanded, you know, staffing plan and things like that just because the facility will be will be larger and a slightly different um expectation from the community. So um happy to answer any questions. It's pretty straightforward, but um excited opportunity

questions. just like Jesse to uh communicate from me and us a big thank you to the family because they they were part of my life growing up the family and many of us here remember them and I really appreciate them still being a part positive part of the community. Absolutely. We're happy to I agree. The Berlingham Trust has been very generous to the community. Dun Berlingham was quite a quite a philanthropist with the city with David a park after him already but no that they've been very generous to the city for many years so I'm equally appreciative any else

then I would entertain a motion I move to approve the proposed name for the Mil Creek Community Center Event space um open print Burlington Berlingham Community Hall closed print and authorize the city manager to enter into a funding agreement with um Burlingham Trust, Inc. for the naming rights. There second. Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor signify with an I. I. Opposed the same. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, we have a construction contract for the police station upgrades.

Uh good afternoon again, Mr. Mayor, members of council. Uh Curtis Stoultz, the course director. Um this is a uh three projects kind of rolled into one. main project is going to be the expansion of the police department's secure parking behind the facility and lighting upgrades to um accommodate more usage for the police department and also um restrict and try to restrict access um with some additional fencing along Highway 214 um up on top of the hill on the city property adjacent to ODOT um all the way to the police department and then another fencing along the back of the um uh back of the parking lot to again try to prevent uh students and other people from trying to traverse um through the park and cross over the railroad tracks. The third part of this is the long- aaited um fencing project with um Union Pacific to um secure the area from the bridge inutment um to the creek uh to again keep people from getting back into the city park and crossing over the railroad tracks. The goal is to force people to to uh go down 214 in front of the police department and make those um transitions back into the park and further down. Um there's one other part of this project that we're doing is if you're pulling out of the police department and um heading north to 214, there is a burm um adjacent to the um sidewalk and the road right there that we are going to um shave back and uh try and increase the sight distance to the east. Um we had an incident with a bicycle and a car there. Um, we did some research and found that that was probably a good idea to to pull that in embankment back to improve site distances there. Um, again, 12 biders I believe. Uh, pretty decent pricing on this one as well. Um, hoping to get this

project rolling and get it done so that we can make this happen. Any questions? I don't know if Andy was had planned on speaking at all, but Andy, you got No, no, it's all you, Curtis. 45 minutes for Andy. Yes. So the engineers estimount was real close to that low bid. That's came in fortuitous. That's nice. Yes, very much so. Questions, comments? No. Nope. Okay, good report. Thank you. Um, entertain a motion.

Okay. I move I move to award the construction contract for the police station upgrades project to the lowest responsible bidder, K&L Industries, Inc. in the amount of $296,215.15. Staff recommends approving an additional $40,000 for this project as a contingency for potential chain or orders that may arise during construction. Thank you. Is there a second move and seconded? All in favor signify with an I.

I oppose for the same passes unan. Thank you. Moving on, we have phase two, a contract for 100% design for Evergreen Road intersection improvements. That's Stacy Allison.

Again, Curtis Stoultz, public works director. Um the this is a continuation of design work that we had started previously to come up with some um ideas to try and um have a design ready to go so that we could make some improvements on Evergreen Road at some key intersections where um we're having some traffic accidents. We're having um some capacity um issues for future development possibly. So we want to try and get ahead of the curve on this one. And um so this is going to be full buildout design and documents that can go out out to bid. We're hoping to have this completed by the end of summer and um have contracts to go out to bid by the fall. Um this is the we went through this bidding process on the first phase of this. Uh we had three um teams or three companies that that bid on it. um HHPR was um the low bidder and we were continuing with them for our work on the full design work. Um they're expediting this. We're they they've been moving very quickly, been very responsive to the city's moving target on this. Um we've had a lot of people involved from community development to the city administrator and Jim Ralph trying to come up with our best options to move forward for plans to um make things work in the future. So, um, it's kind of a moving target in in in the sense that, uh, it's a truck route. Um, hopefully someday we can readjust that truck route, but until that time, we have to make improvements that will facilitate the current road conditions. So, uh, with that, any questions?

Any questions? It's good to see we are moving ahead on safe projects. That's no longer correct. You know, I will mention that these are full SD, well, not full SDC, but a lot of the dollars that are being used on this design work are going to be SDC dollars that have been paid previously and future dollars paid um from um developers. Great. Thank you.

I hear no comments or questions and I'd entertain a motion. I move to award a contract for 100% design work for the Evergreen Road intersection improvements to Stacy Allison Way um West Hay Street and Harvard Drive project to Harper Peterson and Regelis. Sorry if I messed up the name. um HHPR in the amount of $735,112.96 and authorize the city manager to sign the contract. Thank you. Is there a second? Second.

Move and seconded. All in favor signify with an I. I oppose with the same. Thank you. Good job. That's will go a long way to helping the city. That is all we have for general business. I do not see any other business. We do not have anything from the planning commission uh tonight. So, we'll move on to our city manager report.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'll be brief. We've been just busy in this short session. uh the uh city attorney uh Ranada, Chris Kerr, uh everybody seems to be working pretty hard on trying to influence land use and housing policy to help Woodburn advance its interest down the road. And I think we've made substantial progress on that, but it's fast and furious in the legislature right now and it's all hands- on deck in a lot of ways. Um but I'm also uh I think uh I feel pretty proud. I think the city has stood up in this statewide issue and that we're making an impact not just for Woodburn but hopefully for uh the rest of Oregon down the road. So that continues to unfold and continues to just take a lot of our time. Uh I want to mention to you that we are sending a delegation to the National League of Cities Conference uh coming up in mid-March and Council Graalava has agreed to participate in that this year and uh I think this will be a good year to go. Um to that uh I mean there's a lot of issues that have been impacting Woodburn that are national issues that will allow us opportunities to work with other communities and hopefully learn from their experiences. And finally, the city is a member of the Midwam Valley Council of Governments. It's a regional COG that we belong to. We participate in this organization regionally for services and programming and um and they have their annual uh annual meeting that includes a dinner coming up on March 5th. Uh the city is uh sending a team to that. We have one seat left. If there's a counselor like to participate on that, you're welcome to to go. There's lots of city officials, uh, staff and elected officials from a threecount region and gives us a good opportunity to sort of coordinate our our efforts and to try to learn from each other about what's happening. I say

it it is a good uh good evening and really says a lot what's going on in in the area and I can tell you Woodburn will be getting some recognition that evening. So if somebody can't make it, you would you would enjoy the evening. I will be there March 5th. March 5th at Western Oregon posting it. That's all I have, Mr. Mayor, unless anybody has any questions. Thank you. Moving on to uh council reports. Counc. No, I have no no news today. Okay. Council Wilton,

I would note that Liberty House will be at the Chamber of Commerce uh Wednesday, this Wednesday at 3 to give an update on their uh facility and work they're doing here in the Woodbury area to help uh families in crisis. They're real good organization. We're fortunate to have them here in our our town. And other than that, I I just really would like to thank staff for all their hard work. You know, we had a number of items came up tonight that uh that really go to livability and safety. You know, keeping our our community a safe and vibrant place. I mean, these things don't just happen. It takes a lot of staff time to make them happen. I just want to acknowledge their hard work. Thank you,

Councelor Sh. Well, I really want to uh reiterate what um councelor Wil said. We have a a just a fantastic staff and um this it takes a team and we have the best team and the best leaders. Um and I just want everybody to know that I appreciate it. That's all I have to say.

Council Bravo, nothing from me. That's Thank you, Council Cordwell. Um, I just want to say I appreciate what Mayor Loneran said earlier about the trees because as you know I'm I'm very much into saving every tree possible. So my son and I went over the plans and we saw that yes because of the design they did need to come out but it still hurt my heart to see them go and that's all I'm going to say.

Thank you. Uh, a couple things. One, um, I also want to thank Council W for bringing up the Liberty House. They are a true asset to Woodburn. Allison Kelly, the director, is going to be there. Are you able to attend that? Thank you. I am not able to attend, but I I'd like to. So, that's Yeah, good to go. U also, Council Wil has equally been active in some of the work going on with short session, and I appreciate that. And like our city manager said, the staff has been fantastic putting deals together, uh, and rewriting them and then rewriting them again. and then arguing them. So, I thank them for that. Um, I did have the privilege of doing a groundbreaking this last week for Hartwood uh assisted living center that they have out Moon Bo and they're adding a a big development to uh their north side and they're excited about that. They right now are memory care, but they're adding 60 beds for an assisted living, which will be real good for Woodburn. So, Woodburn is growing. We're We're here. We're good. Um I believe that's all I have. So, I'd entertain a motion to adjurnn.

So moved. Second. Move it. Seconded. All in favor? Second. I. Those opposed. Our next meeting is March 9th. second Monday in March. So, thank you all.