City Council - Regular Meeting

Great. Good evening. I will call the meeting, our city council meeting of April 13th to order. We'll start with flag salute, which council, will you please lead us in? 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. We have roll call, please. Councelor Cornwell, Councelor Bravo, present. Councelor Shab, here. Councelor Wilk, here. Councelor Kentu, here. Councelor Grihova presented.

Mayor Lteran here. Thank you. So, moving on to announcements. Could we have council Canu, will you please? Yes.

I have a list from the city and then another list that's community, so forgive me. They're not in chronological order. Um, the state of the city address will be held on Friday, April 24th at 8:00 a.m. here in the city hall council chamber. Um, on April 25th, the next day will be community cleanup day, and it will take place from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and folks that want to participate can meet at the Woodburn Library. That same morning is the Woodburn Budget Committee meeting um, Saturday, April 25th at 9:00 a.m. here in city council chambers. And moving on to community announcements, the city of Woodburn District Music Festival is on Thursday, April 23rd at 6:30 at the Woodburn High School. And then um Saturday, April 25th at the Woodburn High School is Diadel Nino Celebration. Um the city is doing a tree giveaway program. You can visit the city's website for more information, but the last day to apply for certificates is Thursday, April 30th. Uh registration is open for Fiesta Mexicana parade. Information is available on the city's website and the parade date is set for Saturday, April 22nd at 11:00 a.m. And it is public safety telecommun communicators week which is April 12th through the 18th. Thank you Metcom for all the work that you do. And um lastly, sign up for the city's weekly eblast. there is information that will go directly into your email and that link can be also found on the city's website.

Thank you. Under um my reflection, I have a couple items I want to bring up. Uh, first one is I was talking to one of our volunteers, a gentleman named Stephen Hayden, who Stephen uh is runs the little league program for T-ball and and above. And Stephen has been working this last year actually hit us up the last couple years about trying to get some fences around our little league fields out at Centennial Park. Um, and the city has has been looking at at a way to try and do that and keep it within budget and and I thank Jesse for the work that he's done on that and working with Stephen. But Stephen has gone out on his own and has gone to Lawn Brothers who have graciously volunteered to pay for the uh materials at cost and then he got Double Eye Construction that is willing to put the the fences up at no cost. So this is is a huge project for our little league program and something now will be able to host tournaments and uh uh give us a the fields are regular good fields and and first class fields and and this finishes them off. So it'll provide a whole lot of opportunities out there at Centennial Park. So very appreciative to those companies and to to Stephen and the Little League Association for working on that and putting that together. So Jesse, you got a anything to say you on that? Is it?

Wasn't expected to.

So um no, I just um kudos to the whole volunteer group. Um I think the Woodurn Youth Baseball program is one of those things that we thought was going to, you know, kind of it as a lot of programs are, they kind of are as good as the volunteers that run them. um as we kind of see in the room tonight even, but um they um it was kind of dying and then Steven came in with new energy brought in new parents and it really kind of bolstered the program again. Um and so kudos to them for making that happen. And so, um, that new kind of passion for the program and the youth, they've seen numbers increase. They've, you know, they've partnered with a lot of good businesses in town and thank you to Long Brothers and things and, um, it'll be a really nice project to have completed and have done professionally and done well. And so, um, just kudos to everyone who is involved in making it happen.

A lot of work on our soccer field, so it's kind of nice to have a little bit more on the baseball side. Absolutely. Boys and girls, completely agree. So, the other thing, um, it's been announced and we're going to continue to announce it. Woodburn is up for a national award as city, uh, as a city of the year with some, uh, stiff competition of, uh, 20 cities and they're making this announcement to 10 cities. I'll turn it over to Scott who has more information on it.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Super exciting. Woodburn um was considered and was selected to be one of 20 across the country to present our community in Denver in May for an all-American city designation from the National City League, which is a pretty coveted coveted designation to to get. If if we're successful in that, half the cities who participate will get the designation. You know, we'll plaster it on everything. You know, we'll we'll want businesses to put it on their business cards. We're going to put it on everything. It's got Woodburn on. It's all American city. Um and it's really exciting. So, we'll send a delegation there. It focused on a couple categories. One, it focused on um our application focused on youth engagement and the city's um effort to uh provide youth activities, youth roles and collaborate with the school district. And the school district will be a partner with us in Denver on this. The second one has to do with other civic engagement and building up the resources in the community. uh our involvement in the aware food bank and the family resource center and the the um school resource officer program and on and on and on that was all highlighted as part of the effort. And so we're going to really stress these points about what a great community Woodburn is and how uh the city does come together to build up these programs and we've had quite a lot of success in the last couple years. So we're really excited about it. I'd like to send a couple counselors on that to represent the community, but we want to be youth focused and so we are talking with the school district identifying some youth programming as part of the presentation. We'd like there to maybe be some mariachi music there, maybe um some other cultural representations of Woodburn. So, uh half of the cities, 10 of them out of the 20 will get the designation and we're going to do everything we can to make sure it's us, Mr. Mayor. Okay.

Thank you. I wish us the best. So moving on, we have a couple proclamations uh for the month. The first one is the child abuse prevention um month of April and I would like our council president Sharon Job to please read it.

This is very close to my heart being foster child and myself all about child abuse. April is um child abuse vention whereas every child deserves to live in a safe, loving and caring family environment. And whereas in 2024 of all completed CPS assessments in Oregon, 8,242 were found for abuse and involved 11,669 victims. 34.9% were 5 years old and younger of which 814 were victims in marrying and whereas we stand together as individuals, organizations and government agencies to commit to preventing child abuse in our country by raising awareness throughout the community and by educating and supporting caregivers And whereas we assert that strong families and safe, stable and nurturing environments, free from violence, abuse and neglect are essential for children optimum growth and success which ensures a secure future for our communities where the needs of children are a priority and the needs of family are met. Now therefore I Sharon Shaw council president and Frank J. Wong urban mayor of the city of Woodland Wood ask everyone to join together in protecting our children and

do hereby proclaim April 2026 as child abuse prevention year.

Thank you counselor. Uh we're fortunate. We have a couple people that represent some uh very valuable agencies and organizations that do everything they can to help also prevent uh childhood uh abuse. First, I'd like to invite Eva Pnati who uh is early learning and childcare director for Community Action Agency that I've gotten to know Eva pretty well being on that board. But thank you for coming tonight. Thank you, mayor. Thank you, city council members. My name is Eva Pinotti. I'm the chief program officer for early learning and child care with Midwamtt Valley Community Action Agency. Mayor Lteran is a member of our board of directors, which is great. We have a presence in Woodburn with um our site at the First Presbyterian Church on Boon. We serve 34 children ages 3 to five there in our Head Start program. We serve overall in Marion and Pulk County's 714 uh children ages birth to five and we are here tonight as an early learning collaborative to support the proclamation for April being child abuse prevention month. Thank you very much for having me. Thank you.

Thank you very much for coming. And next we have some representatives for Liberty House that I'd invite up to also they do a very valuable job. Thank you Woodburn City Counselors for the proclamation. My name is Peter Curio and I'm the director of prevention and community engagement for Liberty House, the children's advocacy center serving Marian and Pulk counties. We serve about 1,000 children per year, which sounds like it might be a high number, but it might actually under represent the real severity of the problem. What worries me most is the kids that never come forward that with what has happened to them. So that's why Child Abuse Prevention Month is so critically important. It raises awareness about this issue and it brings awareness to the great organizations working here locally to do something about it. Um, it's also a really great time for anyone who's interested to learn more about what they can do to promote child safety. Liberty House offers a series of prevention trainings uh that we offer free of charge, but also there's a lot of other great organizations in this community who are working to to do something about this pretty severe problem. Um, child abuse can be a really difficult thing to talk about. It can be really difficult to raise awareness about, but talking about it sheds some really important light on it. And we kind of believe that everyone has a role to play in preventing this issue and that a community that comes together to work on this issue makes a safer and healthier community for everyone. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Peter. Appreciate your comment. Is there any other organization that I missed that did not talk to us? Then I do have copies of these proclamations that I'd like to give to Peter and

thank you Thank you all for your support. I know it's a very hard subject, but uh it's an important one. I certainly appreciate the the help these agencies providing that here in Woodburn. Next up, we have a proclamation for recognizing our volunteer appreciation. And I'm going to have our chief volunteer of the world to please read the proclamation.

We're all volunteers up here. Yes, that is true.

Okay. Proclamation. Volunteer appreciation week. Whereas the city of Woodburn joins communities across the state and nation recognizing volunteers during National Volunteer Week. And whereas we celebrate the many individuals who give their time and energy to support our libraries, neighborhoods, schools, faith-based organizations, civic groups, and public agencies. And whereas volunteers can contribute compassion, ideas, skills, and professional ex expertise that strengthens our community and enhance the quality of life for our residents. And whereas their service supports recreation, education, health and social services, housing and food programs, public safety, emergency preparedness, literacy, and environmental and economic initiatives. And whereas their collective contributions improve the lives of res residents, support our local economy, and inspire others to serve. And whereas the city recognizes that volunteers play a vital role in helping meet community needs and advancing shared goals while bringing our community together through selfless service. And whereas during this week in April, we call upon all community members and organizations to thank and celebrate the contributions of volunteers. Now therefore, be it pro proclaimed by the city of Woodburn that April 19th through the 25th, 2026 to be volunteer appreciation week. And I as counselor and the mayor encourage all residents to thank volunteers for their service and to consider giving their own time and support of our community.

That's it. Thank you. cancelled. Thank you. Woodburn would not be where we are today without the hundreds and hundreds of volunteers we have in every area from sports like we talked about earlier to the government to uh lot of of nonprofits just people wanting to help people. So I I thank you all. Thank all of our counselors they're voluntary. Yes. Okay.

Thank you. So next up is a very much a fun one and this and a very difficult uh one. It is uh recognizing some some students who are part of the Woodburn Arts Scholarship program. This is the second year of this program. We have a volunteer uh art and uh what's the name of our committee? public art and mural committee of made up of of about eight people that a lot of them have been together for uh several years. And it is this committee that has done the job of of putting up the murals around Woodburn and and some uh u brass figures and and uh if you haven't noticed it, the latest ones are up at the high school. We have a bison family that is is beautiful piece of art recognizing the archeological dig that has happened there. But tonight um like say a year ago we start want decided we wanted to recognize the very talented youth that we have in uh in our schools and we're able to come up with some money uh to to help recognize that. And we are giving $3,000 to uh uh a winner of uh that was decided the winner by by vote of the committee and $1,000 to the other two uh people that placed. So, as of right now, we do not know who those people are that won in the Golden and I haven't opened the Golden, but uh there's more to that. And I'd like to invite one of the uh the committee members who we're also blessed to have

and is a uh instructor art teacher at the the high school up that has works with these kids on a daily basis to come up and uh fill us in on how the high school decided to nominate these three to the committee. Katherine Jstone, please. Thank you. Thank you. Hi Sharon. Um, so, uh, this year we had 16 applicants, which was up from last year, and I just want to go over the process of selecting them. We have four full-time art teachers at the high school. And, uh, we came up with a rubric. Uh, and, um, there were four points on that rubric. Uh, well, four considerations. uh criteria. One was their grade point average in art classes just in their art classes. Uh uh the next was technical prof proficiency. So how skillful they were in using the media of their choice. Um originality and creativity was the third criterion and that um is the emergence of a personal voice. And lastly they had to answer three essay questions. One was how would they use the money to further their creativity? Um how has living in Woodburn helped to shape them as individuals and in turn how has that influenced their artwork? And then why did they choose the five to seven pieces? Um and how do those pieces hold together thematically? Um, so we have three uh students and we'll find out tonight which one gets the top prize. But uh first we have Christian who has taken art um almost every art class at the high school especially u the 2D classes and the

digital and he plans to study marketing and with a minor in graphic design next year at UFO. Jasmine has taken uh the full sequence of art one, art two, uh and she has taken AP art and design for two years as a junior and as a senior. Um and um she plans to um her goals are to be a neonatal nurse um in the future. and we talked about how being an artist has really helped her to really hone her um abilities um not only with her fine motor skills but also her powers of observation which is so important in the medical field. And then lastly, Aiden um Brown uh wants to continue photography well beyond graduating from high school and he has really found a passion there and he loves um all things technological and um he's done a lot taken a lot of engineering classes as well and his career plan is to be an electrician. Um so with that I'll let each of the students talk about their art.

Okay. as they come up. Um, is Aiden here? All three are here. Yes, you mind. Yeah, thanks.

I'd like to also say, yeah, it's it's the art and mural committee that that might have had the the final say that Katherine's part of, but this wouldn't have come without a lot of staff time and and input. and Jamie John, our economic development director and and her team helped put this together, working very hard with that committee and and preparing this for tonight. Um, part of this presentation was shown at the city museum last Friday night and I went and saw that and tell you it's very hard to pick pick a winner here. this the three that the that Katherine's team picked to present to the committee are all equally talented and uh it's it's very tough choice to decide who who got this. So Aiden, tell us about yourself.

Uh I'm 18 years old. I was

Oh yeah, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Uh, I'm 18 years old and I was raised in Oregon and lived in Woodburn for like I think around seven years. Okay. I moved here because it was closer to my dad's work. Um, I I like photography a lot. Like I want to keep continuing it after high school. I find it really enjoyable. I like it. It' be a cool side gig to go like take wedding photos and stuff like that. Or maybe like commission work for people that want photos or something like that. And then my my main goal is to be an electrician because they uh they make good money and I would be able to support I be able to support

support your photography. Yeah. Yeah. Photography. And I mean my family and stuff too. Yeah. Aiden, the pictures that you submitted uh that we're showing here, what's can you say anything about them? What's your favorite? Uh I I like the the one that was on the screen just a second ago with the woolly caterpillar with the water on it. I I enjoy taking nature photography and stuff like that. Uh my lens is a little small so I have to get up really close. Uh I'm going to get upgraded eventually, but like I like capturing the small details of like just around this so you won't be able to see very like like real close up, you know. Okay. Thank you very much.

Amazing work. Christian up. Good evening. Okay. Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Oh, yes. Um, my name is Christian Chavez and I'm a senior. And um a little bit about myself is I've lived in Woodburn for almost my entire life. And um at least artwise I like to experiment with like a a lot of different mediums. Uh this includes like illustration, digital art, photography, like kind of like a lot a lot of things. And then this year I mainly focused on on like physical pieces mainly about climate change and how like it affects not just like the community but one's self as well. And in like some of the images you can see like like some illustrations of like either nature or myself and like different like all like expressed in like different in different ways. Was that hard doing the self-image?

Uh, yes. I I do not like drawings portraits and especially not of myself. So, that was that was an experiment. Definitely. Good. Thank you. Any comments? Great work. Thank you so much for being part of this. Yeah.

Oh, yes. So, my plan was to do my plan was to do something art related, but since I realized like a lot of it like includes like like not not a lot of money goes into into like into like art. So like I decided to go into like a marketing major where like I can I can explore like different things and then minor in something like art related so that I can like so that with the with the marketing I can like invest on like the minor that I'm that I'm hoping to pursue which is either like graphic design or like anything else that is like art related. Yeah. Right.

Thank you very much. Thank you. and Jasmine, please come on up. Welcome.

Hello. Uh, my name is Jasmine Caro and speak a little closer to the mic, please. Yeah. Thank you. So, my name is Jasmine Garo and I've been living Woodburn for half my life. I think I've lived in Salem, but I moved here like when I was, I think, 13, maybe 14 years old. Um, and then my art, it's about my relationship with time and how that takes a toll on me, on my mental health. And, uh, sorry, I'm a little nervous. Wonderful.

Um, so my work consists of like different mediums that I've used. I've used watercolor, um, collage, paper, or layered art, and just different materials like markers and stuff like that. Um, which one of your submittals is your favorite? My favorite, that's kind of a hard choice. Uh, I think So, you love them all? Yeah, I just love creating art to be honest. But I think my favorite might be the koiish. This one.

Yeah. Um, and the reason why it's my favorite is because it's supposed to represent like my personal growth. It's not just like my in my like myself, but also as like an artist and as a person. Um, and yeah, that's it. Okay. Any comments, questions? Beautiful work. So, I plan on working as a neonatal nurse. And the reason why I want to work as a neonatal nurse is because I just want to help people like help like babies who are like in critical conditions and stuff like that and just see mothers be happy like to see their baby like you know um being in good health and stuff like that. So, yeah. Right. Great.

Well, Jasmine, thank you so much for participating and being part of this. So it is my it's just

so I wanted to explain that decision-making process for everybody who's here tonight including the city council. So once the school had made the recommendations of the three finalists, our public arts and murals committee reviewed individually. They reviewed the applicants. They reviewed all of the information as well as the art that was provided and they too had a rubrics that they used for scoring and then staff took all of the scores of the students combined them together to come up with the total. So the the recipients of the scholarships are based on the scores that were received by students. So it wasn't personal preference or anything else. It was everybody did it on their own. So it was equitable and we're really really pleased with the results. So that's how we did it as a committee.

Good point. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you. So this year's winner of scholarship recipient is for $3,000 for recognizing Christian Chavez Pepia. Congratulations. And Aiden and Jasmine are the recipients of $1,000 each. So yes. And I have some participation certificates that we give you. It doesn't have your position.

Yeah. Going this way. Individually or together? Individually. Thank you. Very good. Great.

Okay.

Thank you. Nobody in that yet. scholarship.

Jasmine excited. Just a second. Well, are we going to keep those pictures at the museum for a while or

the artwork museum? They were part of the first Friday the Friday class last Friday and then we'll continue there until the next day. But I think the next showing is going to be at the Woodurn Park Center. They'll be participating in the Woodurn Art Center 14 as well. And Jamie it'll be posted on the website or web page.

Of course. Thank you again. Thank you all for participating. Be part of this. Continue your great talent and come on back to Woodburn. Show us what you got in the future. Okay, moving on. We do have other work tonight. Um, next up is another presentation of our community center construction update.

All right. All right. Good evening, city council mayor Lon again. Um I expect a lot of applause after that. So um exactly we're going to get into some if you finish early. Right. Exactly. We're going to get into some some interesting things here. So we'll get going. Is your art just good?

H Oh god, no. I'm not even close. But um we'll see what we can come up with. So um I always like to show you know kind of what what is to be a little bit just to give that um kind of piece there. This is obviously view from first in oak. Um the mural on the wall is not yet decided. That is just a filler there. So don't get set on that. That is still in progress. But just kind of showing so show what's soon to be. Um wanted to show some pictures of um progress we have um currently on on the left hand side of these photos. You'll see the next couple slides we have the the preconstruction and then the one on the right post construction. Um, obviously you can see that there is a significant Let me pull up my little handy dandy pointer. Um, we're missing the whole front half of the building. Um, it didn't get stolen. It was on purpose. So, um, yes, that is all gone. And also, this is separate from this presentation, but in the in the coming weeks, hopefully, we're going out to bid for the park project and you'll start to see development around the facility as well. Um, so just kind of pointing out looking west toward the facility. Um, this year again, we're just going to rotate around the facility. Um, this one I want to point out actually a little bit here because I find it to be kind of important. Um, this lighter colored dirt outline here is basically the layout of the new facility. Um, and I'll go over this a couple times, but if you remember correctly, we are keeping basically the natiatorum building, the pool building itself, um, and then adding 17,000 square feet of new facility around it. Um, it's kind of interesting being able to walk the site. Um Jim and I get to do that on a weekly basis. Um or if I break in after hours and walk it just because it's interesting. But um it it's kind of interesting to see just the elevation change kind of how we feel the spaces are actually going to feel quite expansive, quite large. We'll see once they start putting walls up. But I'm someone who can't can't visualize something that's just on paper in reality. And so to actually be in the space, you're like, "Okay, I can

feel it now." You can kind of start to feel those spaces. Um, so it's a really kind of fun piece to be moving forward with. Again, looking kind of toward the northeast, um, this kind of burm we have, um, that was the, um, outfield or was part of the base field base field walls um, is getting removed and then will be burmed as part of the park project and grass, things like that. Um, but you can kind of see the continued demolition there. All right. So then moving into um, foundation sharing. So, if you were in downtown over the past two weeks, you might have noticed or heard some vibration. Um, and so, um, we, you know, kudos to everyone in the community who was very patient. It wasn't as disruptive as we thought it would be. Um, but after getting back our geotechnical report, um, as we were going through this process, um, the the report came back as saying the soils within where the new building was going to go, um, wasn't as stable as they would have liked. So instead of there's multiple ways to kind of um go about doing foundation shuring or um shuring up your building. Um our consultants and everyone decided on doing aggregate peers. And so this machine on the left hand side here basically has this large hopper on top. They take buckets of 3/4 minus gravel um and they put it into the top of this um component here. It goes down this shaft which gets pressed or pounded into the ground while it vibrates. And as it vibrates, it creates kind of these layers of aggregate peers. And so it it doesn't actually allow any expansion on the soil. They're not actually taking soil out. They're actually putting product in and pushing it to the sides. And so that's why it vibrates. Some of these um peers are up to 30 ft deep. Um and there's um they range in depth depending on the necessity. Um but there was there's going to be about 150 of these peers throughout the new facility which then the um the floor joistices and everything will be connected into some form or fashion.

So I wanted to point out here too just as a reminder I think everyone's pretty aware of this project but the again this is the red box is basically what we're keeping of the building. This is important for the next couple of slides because as with any remodel renovation, the ugly stuff comes from what you already owned. And that's what we are going to find out here in a minute. So the new stuff is pretty is pretty easy. You know, the vent space, all these pieces here, um the community event spaces, this this will this is pretty self-explanatory. We're pretty good. It's this is where we got into some ugly stuff and we're going to review here. We're very fortunate we ran into these things as well. So structural issues. So um again this is um we're going to go through three different kind of main big kind of components we ran into over the past several weeks with this project. So one isn't as so much structural as um it's not like holding up the building but there is um metal metal studs inside the natitorium that I'll be showing you that were rusting away. I'll show you those. The next one was actually the truss um truss um anchors. So the roof to the actual building itself and having issues there that is obviously structural um and then we actually have beams throughout the facility as well um or sorry columns that are holding up beams throughout the facility that were an issue also. So um we'll get into this kind of fun stuff here. Um we are again very fortunate because if there was a as you're going to see throughout this if there was somewhat of a significant um you know earthquake event or something like that seismic event

a big wind

you know yeah we yeah exactly we were actually very careful even doing the aggregate peers um there was no we actually did you know we shot um elevation lines and kept track of the building through that whole process nothing was the case but it was you know it could have been something catastrophic um and you'll see through some of these photos um especially when we get to the actual columns. So um here we have and I'll actually show up how the design actually is of the walls, but on this right hand side here kind of shows plaster. This is the plaster walls in the niatorum. The um south wall, the north wall, and the east wall all had a plaster kind of fascia on them. And behind that were these um steel studs. Um they were actually zinc coated, not galvanized, which was part of the issue. And then they were insulated and they were all adhered to the CMU block wall. Um when they were doing some of the cutouts to expand the doors or different parts of the project, these were things we couldn't even see with the investigative kind of demolition we did cuz we weren't going to cut out huge wall and leave a huge gaping hole longer than we needed to um that they found. They were cutting into pieces and noticing that things were just crumbling next to them. And so I'll kind of explain how the current system or the old system was set up. Um on the interior of the um natiatorum it goes plaster which I showed you. Then it was like the steel studs and the insulation and then it went CMU block and the paint problem. The reason we got to this issue and all this rust is for about 15 years and you might have heard Jim or Scott say this in the past. There was significant issues with the ventilation in that space. We've invested a ton of time and energy into making the ventilation better. And so with that ventilation came a lot of moisture up into that plaster and up behind that plaster and having a corrosive environment. It's not your normal water, right? It's water with chloromines and you know all of those chemicals in it

that when they make contact with metal that isn't made for that space, it just eats away at it like candy. And so that's where you can see all this here. So you can see these studs that's all rust. So these were you know there was enough good to keep them on the wall. Um but again a significant event even those could have fel fallen off the wall themselves. So when we were looking at possible options and remedies there was there was options to actually replace similar is like or do like the plaster system again. We obviously would have used upgraded materials things like that. You would have used different insulation. um all those types of options. Um but no matter what we were going to do, we were going to have to remove all the plaster and those steel studs and everything else from the inside of the building. So when we started actually having discussions of what the best solution was, um this concept came up. The idea of changing from having kind of your insulation and what's called your thermal envelope on the inside of the building and moving into the exterior. And there's multiple reasons. This is the um this is the choice we chose. Um there was a cost increase for this, but the longevity in other pieces was much better. So the the reason we selected this location, so take away the plaster. There's no plaster, there's no metal studs, anything like that. We're actually just going to clean up that CMU block you saw in this photo. So clean up all of this stuff here. take all these things out, you know, grind off the rust, grind off any, you know, cuz it's not the per it's not perfect um kind of masonry work, right? It was is going to go behind a wall. So, it wasn't perfect, but they'll clean all those things up and then we'll do an interior paint, a high epoxy um paint for that and then the CMU block. And then this is where the the building will actually have more longevity. We're going to be putting a vapor barrier on the exterior of the brick. Um, which will prevent because

currently um, as a natatorium is, it's actually a negative air environment. So, it wants to pull pull moisture in through the brick. And so, putting a vapor barrier there prevent that. And then we put insulation on top of that which creates an exterior insulation piece. And then you're doing metal cladding or metal siding on top of that. And so we're not only gaining increased efficiencies with actual um like thermodynamics of the building, but we're actually getting longevity out of the materials. So before with this previous system, we're having to look at painting this exterior paint every 5 to seven years ideally if we can make it happen. when this here, this metal platting, as you can even see on an older building like the library, it might be sunfaded, but it's still 50 years old and it's still holding up on that down sheeting. And so the longevity we're going to get out of a material like this is much much better. And so the cost in the long term is better. So any questions about this piece? Okay. Another piece is when we were um when we were looking at it to do some of the repairs we're going to need to do on the trust system and other things is this parapit along the top of the building. we were going to have to replace that anyway to do a lot of this work and we were going to have to replace it as like um so we were just going to be taking it down to rebuild up the same kind of 1993 aesthetics when with the new system that won't exist and we'll just it'll be a whole new a whole new building that will match the rest of the aesthetics of the building. This is kind of a left at Albuquerque really quick but I want to point these out. So, these little pieces here, and I might zoom in really quick um because it'll I'll show it on the budget sheet. These pieces here, these are all glass block. And if you paid attention to the facility, this is going away, but these ones here, and then there's some on the back side, those are all glass block. Um

we we also are look um we also are going forward with swapping those out for storefront. So, like just standard storefront windows. Um for a couple reasons. Um, one of the reasons is glass block, um, I think over history are really great targets for BB guns.

And so historically we have like little pin prick holes in like several block or they're or they're broken out and they're very hard to swap out. Like even trip before we made this decision to go this direction, triplet was saving block and for every one they'd save they'd break four kind of situation. So there's that and then again we're going back to energy efficiency. The storefront is much better at the thermodynamic piece of it and it's going to have a much more updated look. In 1993, glass block was all the rage. It's doesn't really match the aesthetic of the building as much. And so, that's another another piece I wanted to point out. But that's where natural light will come through.

Correct. And it's going to allow better natural light on the south side. We'll look at doing some kind of tinting and stuff because we do always want to be aware of the possible glare on the water. You don't want to have any kind of dark spots in the water or or bright spots, I guess, when you're actually getting a reflection off where you can't see into the actual body of water. um obviously being an auditorium, but yeah, so we'll definitely have that in mind. And it's kind of neat, too, because where this large panel glass block is, if it's all storefront, the the water slide is going to be is right against that wall. So, you'll see people walking up the slide. It'll kind of show some of the activity going in the building, too. Um, which would be kind of a fun piece, too. So, um, like I said, from the aesthetic standpoint, so we were just going to be painting the CMU block here. we were going to paint that parapit on the top of the building. Um, with doing the actual exterior system, um, you're looking at transferring, it might be a slightly different color, um, color scheme the rest of the building just to kind of give it a give it a slightly different look, but make it cohesive. Um, but you're looking at this metal cladding actually extending through the rest of the building here. So, now we get into that that obviously has importance, but now we get into some of the kind of a little scarier stuff. So, um I want to bring up these truss um truss anchors again. So, this is just a image put pulled off um off of Google to kind of describe what these are. So, the truss um they have these J-bolts that come up here. Um they're actually set down into the CMU block and then the trusses are actually bolted to the CMU block. So that's important because you can see that the you know the truss is attached to the wall and it creates kind of a lateral a lateral load which the building can hold in case there is any movement. Well, we ran into this and so there is a large amount of these trust bolts that have been damaged due to the same situation of the environment that happened 15 years ago. This is something you can't see. They're tucked up against the ceiling. They're tucked up against

the walls. Again, if something you can imagine not having the top, it's basically that building is sitting due to gravity, right? Um there's a few good anchors allegedly for liability. Our lawyers right here, but I say allegedly that was true,

right? Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Good thing now it's the construction workers are plenty aware of the situation. So, um so part of the replacement when they do the roof replacement, we'll also be um we'll be working with the design team to come up or the engineers to come up with the new anchor systems for those. It'll probably involve epoxy as well as bigger anchors, different things like that. Um the CMU block wall itself is in great condition. There's no cracking. There's nothing else. Um that seems solid, great, doing very well. But this is the connection and to the roof is what's what's lacking. And so they'll be looking at replacing this when they actually do the roof removal. So they have access to these things. They don't know exactly which direction that will go because they're still working through the engineering and designs, but just wanted to point that out. So, last big kind of damaged piece was damage caused to the steel columns. Um, so let me pull out my handy dandy little piece here. So, this column is missing about 3/4 of actual steel. This, if you can see here, is holding up this whole beam here. These are metal or these are wooden posts that the contractors put in when they noticed that this was failing as bad as it was. So they put in two about 10 by 10 in posts to hold up this this beam here. This is a structural beam that was basically holding up by a quarter of its actual um strength. Um there is also some damage to a few other beams. There's four other beams on the other side of the on the south side of the the building. not to this same extent that we can see, but we still need to dig back some of the concrete, but those will be looking to be replaced as well.

So, this is again where um water was actually hitting the beam. So, these weren't kind of they weren't either elevated or encased in anything to prevent the the water the corrosive water to touching the actual metal when it was built in 1993. And so, this beam here was actually up against the spa. Um, and so that's that water was kind of just skidding there and then it was actually eating away at the metal. You couldn't see it from the top view. There was no way for us to see it until they started breaking things away and they started to notice these pieces. You couldn't see it from the other side. I wanted to talk a little bit um not not just that this was important that the city council see this and we're going to continue to update the city council as construction prog progress continues so that the community and the city council can be up to speed as the project moves forward but but this I think took us all back a lot and there could be no question or no doubt that the aquatic center would have would be would be done. There would be no aquatic center available for the community had this been uncovered prior to this construction project. So if there's any question about whether or not

this is needed. Um the answer is yes. Yes. Gravity gravity is not a good strategy for hoping that the roof stay tell you.

This also really reminds me of um the aquatic center down in Corvalis. I don't know if anyone followed that but they had very wasn't exactly this but they had a very similar situation where their whole they have an exterior and interior pool. They had to close I think it maybe it's just open now but for about a year and a half until they could find a structural way to do it they had a very similar situation where they just closed the building. They still had an outdoor pool that they could access during the fair weather months but other than that the whole indoor facility was not able to be done. So um moving on to kind of the repair cost and contingency. So I really before I get into these um there's a few points I always want to point out with this project um especially this and the park project. I always like to remind folks that this is purely done out of um funds that are dedicated for this project. It can't be used for other things. So, we have the $15 million for the state that was written to building community center Woodpin. So, they weren't for general operational cost. Um as well as all of the other grants and things um that we've been securing and then park secill. Um so, all of the different um funding mechanisms are are truly dedicated. They can't be dedicated elsewhere um due to law or due just grant agreements themselves. So, I always like to point that out. But again, this building, the actual construction of it is at zero cost to the taxpayers. Um, as a reminder, the the bond did not pass. The community was heard loud and clear, completely understandable, but we didn't want to see that 15 million go back to the state. And so, we fought for that very hard. And so, this is how we were able to do the construction we're doing. Um as I move on kind of past that wanted to share um another piece is so when we brought the actual construction agreement um to you guys to start this project um we said that we were very fortunate because we received a ton of bids like a record number for triple alman to receive on a project and this is actually a huge benefit because I think it allowed us to actually the cost came in low enough on the construction costs that we were able to hold

contingency um that is actually covering us quite well for where we're at. Um, also much past this point, there's always something, but I don't think we're going to see as large of things. Um, especially something as large as this $400,000 number, which is the whole new exterior of the building basically um come again, right? We might see some other things that that happens with the project, but you're not going to see these. We're kind of pretty close to the end of the uh oh phase and so we're there. Um we started out with the 584 million. Um there is kind of some interesting stuff in here too. There was a a this is a communication system. The DAS and Merc system is used for first responders within a facility. We speced out one that we would maintain ourselves. Um the fire district was like actually we can provide you that a system that we maintain and we said sounds great and it saved us $20,000. So um so that's great. And so we actually were able to kind of we thought it was a good um break even with just for an extra $20,000 replacing all that glass block from the masonry side and putting in storefront. It seemed like a good win. It'll it'll improve the aesthetics all these pieces. Um here's the estimate for the truss repairs. Um some of these are kind of harder numbers. We know for sure. Um some of these are still need to get designed a little bit more and you kind of need to pull away the onion a little bit to get harder numbers. And same with this here. um these are pretty solid, but we still need to do some further design. Um and so that does allow us kind of that remaining contingency of 1.1. So we're still sitting very healthy in a contingency. Um but I just wanted to point that out. Also, we are still navigating and finding funding for these projects. So um Energy Trust is one. Um there's it's it's not going to be a ton of money, but doing the exterior um better thermal envelope Energy Trust Oregon um it looks like there might be a little bit of money we can get there, maybe around $10,000 to help um offset that cost. And then when we go to do the roof itself,

um it looks like due to the damage to the roof um or roof insulation that there's going to be, you know, possibly a credit there as well. Um and so we're constantly trying to find these pieces. Um, as I told um, Scott and Jim and you know, due to all the work that RNA has done and things, kind of total for this project and the park together, we're at about outside of the 15 million, we're at about $3.8 million that we've raised outside of those larger funding sources. So, we're really trying hard to minimize any costs that we would occur anywhere. So, So, basically, you're saying we're still on budget. We're still on budget and we're still on schedule. Okay, that's the other thing.

We're still on schedule. I asked that question at our last OAC meeting. They said we're still looking pretty good. Obviously, they're going to be doing additional design work to get this done, but it's that part isn't there yet. So, they can get the design work done while they add scope to the project. So, they still feel like they're really on time. Um the, you know, the aggregate peers actually ended exactly when they said it would. So, it's tracking loan. There's going to be something. It's construction. if you've even done it in your home, there's going to be something, but we're still optimistic um that we're gonna we're trending in this kind of um summer um grand opening, summer fall. So,

no, I I was going to jump in because I did want to talk a little bit about um sort of the two aspects of this. The construction update, this project is important, but of course, the other challenging and ongoing challen uh challenge of the city is going to be funding the operation of the program.

Yeah. I want to talk a little bit about what has transpired in the last couple months in terms of that front. As the project uh moves forward with construction, which is, as Jesse said, it's completely funded. The city's plan for operating and maintaining the the program over time, continues to be in development. So, I want the council to know and I want the community to know that that is a significant challenge for the city over time. It's easier to build things than it is to operate them over the arc of time. And we we know how hard it was to raise the funding for this. It's going to be equally challenging for the city and the city council and the community to keep the facility operating to its full potential and what it is intended to be. So the city council knows that um the last financial forecast and 5-year forecast that the city council adopted showed developing stress in this in the general fund. I like to say it's the best of times and the worst of times for the city. The best of times is that our dedicated uh development related funds are doing quite well. But the general fund, which everybody cares about because it funds the things we care about, parks, recreations, police, library, aquatics, it is showing substantial uh stress over time like all cities in Oregon, particularly in years two and three of your 5-year financial forecast because of things like sharp and drastic increases in health care costs, continuing increases in retirement cost, and uh all the other personnel related things that comes with to an organization that's primarily a people-driven organization. So I want the council to know what I've done and what I'm intending to propose the city council and the budget committee is converting the community center construction fund which a city council dedicated a million dollars to um dedicating that uh to as an operating fund. So, we're going to convert that from a capital fund to the next year's budget to an operating fund so that we can track and look at these costs

separately and independently from the general fund. Straight transparency to the city council and to the community about what does it cost for a community like Woodburn to operate the community center with the full range of services that the city council has envisioned happening there. youth, senior programming, uh, social services programming, community events, aquatic centers, youth, everything. What's that going to really cost? And so, we've been working on looking at how to allocate now in this new newly created operating fund, what does that look like? And of the million dollars that the city was fortunate enough to set aside to sort of cover the startup costs, like you would need startup costs for any any working capital for any business, we we've determined that we're going to allocate a half a million dollars in the next year to fund six months of that operation, which tells us that we anticipate it to be about a million dollars a year in operating cost of the community center. And so we're going to try to and even in light of the city reducing some positions at the city, we've uh eliminated some vacancies and we're actually losing two individuals. Uh one of them because the ARPA funding for that position has expired and there's no additional ARPA funding. Um, but part of that has to do with re orientating the general fund to help accommodate the startup cost of the community center and grapple with these other cost pressures and and structural shortfalls that we see over time. So, um, the challenge is going to be to have a a revenue offset and how that community center operates. So, it needs to generate a target amount of revenue to help buy down the cost of the general fund to make it sustainable. And like any new business startup, we hope that's going to work out that way. We're going to work towards that. But I want to be really upfront with the council. You know, the the challenge of funding the construction check. The challenge of maintaining this operation to the fullest extent that we

can to serve the community over the next 5 10 15 20 years. That's where some more work is going to really be required. And I think the good news is that with the reductions of positions in the general fund, with us doing some other cost control measures in the general fund, we're able to best position the city that we'll have hopefully a year worth of working capital to solve that question for the upcoming years for the city council. And so, uh, I think it's important that we talk about that and the council knows that this is how this is transitioning and what is, um, coming down the line budgetarily for the community cent's operations. It's like a big new startup business for our city and we're treating it um treating it that way. So, uh the good news, the construction is funded. It's proceeding well. That whole thing with the roof very very freaky. Um yeah, you know, my liability antennas started to quiver when I heard about that. Uh the other challenge of course will be this operating component, too. And we we'll keep the city council updated, I think, in kind of both of these different aspects routinely over time. And um I think Jesse now now we can go to your questions if you have any questions from the city council. We're happy to answer them.

Anyone on council have comments, questions.

Yeah. Yeah. Had there been a way to know, we had immediately shut down the aquatic center, I mean, it would have it would have ceased operations for sure. Yeah, for sure.

Jesse, thank you. Very good report, Scott. Thank you. So next up we have presentation on North Marian Adult Center by Terry Fer Gonzalez. Good evening, mayor, council, staff. What a It was It's a much more fun meeting than I remember being in high school and having to go to city council meeting thinking, "Wow, this is fun."

I brought up uh Leavon Bush who's going to be giving uh some sharing as well. And um I wanted to bring before you something that I think Heather was going to hand out uh our 2025 uh community meal report. As you can look simply at the bar graph from when we started, I don't know if you all got that, but we started uh

kind of uh when COVID hit of what do we do? And last year we averaged over 99 meals or 47,000 meals that were served out of that little tiny church kitchen that I don't think it was ever designed to do. So great thanks for um the cities and the partnership that you have been I know this year's been a little bit of a trick just because the allocation of funds went through um uh food share and so we've been working through trying to get reimbursement which hopefully we're there uh but looking forward to a continued partnership uh with that because I I think we are the largest food program I'm aware of probably for sure in Oregon but within a few states. ates that does what we do. So, all volunteers as we're hitting the volunteer button tonight and thank you all for the volunteer hours and stuff that you all do. Okay. What I really came to talk about tonight is something that is near and dear to my heart and that's helping people, which seems to continue to be a theme tonight. Um, I want to talk about the uh North Marian Adult Center, which I always thought was kind of a strange name for a senior center. Um, but when it was developed, I think there was more foresight in it than what I imagine because it really serves North Marian County. So, not just Woodburn, but you'll see many small communities around us that really could not um have a senior center. I want to go back and just share on the next slide of how did this all begin. So back in 2016, I actually talked to Don Judson who started and got the senior center together and it was volunteer-led up until COVID when it was shut down like most every everything else.

And in March three years ago, we relaunched it. We just celebrated our our three-year anniversary. Um, some things that we're offering that uh as as a growing startup nonprofit is we have free lunch every Wednesday, we'll be offering uh free lunches on Mondays coming up in May. Uh we have a lunch and learn. So we have monthly educational presentations. Um exercise program Mondays and Wednesdays. Um we have assorted activities to just uh fun stuff, crafts, sewing, baking. One of the things that this team, which you'll notice behind me, there's a good amount of our volunteer, our executive team, as well as our volunteer um leaders and um some of our attendees. Um everything we've done has been volunteer-led. Um but they really do well at theme parties. So, whatever the holiday is for that month, they really turn it up and have a great time. And then bingo today we had um Angel was our bingo caller today and had about 24 people and a lot of fun. So um that's how it began. Next slide please. One of the things that um I just retired from being in the car business for probably 40 plus years. So nonprofits done volunteering all my life. My parents are both volunteers. uh but this is a new area of learning and um if you'll hit the Thank you. So in no November of 2022 when we were kind of coming out of COVID, I started realizing and seeing life through my parents because I was working full-time and didn't really my my world didn't change that much. But I saw how they were stuck and how leaving the house was

a big deal and I thought, "Oh my gosh, if they're stuck, there's got to be thousands of other seniors that are just stuck at home." Um, and so that's really what inspired, okay, let's get this thing regoing again. We know that Woodburn needs a senior center. Um, let's just do it. And so we did. Um our growth though now at year three is we're kind of at that tipping point where we're either going to fall back or move forward because a number of us are spending 35 to 40 hours a week volunteering which uh has been has been brought up by uh our executive director Nancy of this feels like a job and yet she works some other jobs you know to make ends meet. So, and it feels like a job to me, too. Uh, but an important one. So, we're really at that volunteer capacity where it's it's jumping into really the need for paid paid leadership and paving the way for 10 years down the road and 20 years down the road um of appropriate wages for these types of leadership positions. Um, the other thing that I think in the past has come up with Woodburn is oftentimes people believe that senior estates is the senior center. And what senior states or the estates now is it's really an HOA much like any other HOA. It's a it's a community that offers its members amenities that are not open to the public. Um, and so not only do we have the estates, but we have Panner, we have Evergreen there. We have a high density of seniors in this community and have just because of those developments. Um, and again, the estates offer certainly some amenities, but few with educational and programming that the

senior center offers. Next slide, please. What blew me away in my learning was how many senior centers there are in the state of Oregon. I've asked a few people, how many do you think there are? H 20. I don't know. Try 88. And if you look at the list of the names of these teeny little towns in some cases, Nissa, Oregon, I was like, some people probably don't even know where Nissa is. Uh on the Oregon, um Idaho border. um Sweet Home. I mean, big cities, but lots of tiny towns that have them. And so, that was something that was uh kind of an awakening to me. Next slide, please. Because the naming of North Maria Adult Center being that it's really a regional center um and thinking about not just Woodburn because Woodburn really is the hub for a lot of small smaller communities around us. So I've just put the um populations there. So we're really serving and and really the city is serving over 40ome thousand people of that are coming to do business in um this city. Um if you would advance. So some key facts and one more is another shocking part was across the state of Oregon over 30% of our population is over age 55 and I think we all may be aware of what's happening with this age group and also less youngers coming up through. So this age group is in the next 10 years is going to get larger and larger. um we have really limited access um to sus to some high needs, some regional um reliance. And then the next bullet is we really need that

centralized hub that seniors can access despite this rapidly growing population segment. Um okay, next slide. also in studying how are senior centers like I don't as I started thinking about this nobody here said gee I'd like to start a senior center right that sounds like something fun to do uh there's probably not a lot of grassroot senior centers that start as you look at the 88 that are throughout the state of Oregon 50 to 65% are nonprofit run um hybrid is the most common in the state of Oregon nonprofits run the daily operations where city and in this case It would be county as well would provide funding as well as some other grants. Um in the Portland metro alone there are 29 senior centers. Um next slide. Um in looking at comparably sized um communities around that 30 to 40,000 because that's where we're going. um is you can see the operational models. Again, about four of them are nonprofitled, two are city operated. You can see the variety of ways that cities contribute to them and then most of them also have other donated don donations through foundations, those types of things. Next slide or next actually. So the quote below um to me really captured um compared to similar Oregon communities, Woodburn is operating at senior center with significantly less public investment despite comparable population size and a growing senior demand. Um so it feels like we're getting a we've got a late start. Um and next slide please. The other thing I found interesting is

the longevity of a lot of these um senior uh centers is for decades many of these communities have had the benefit um of years but we're only really beginning that journey. We're really leaving uh leaving a multi-deade gap of infrastructure access and support for this aging community. So, um, yeah, it was, uh, again interesting data to see how many years and Woodward really has only had eight years with a significant gap of COVID in between. Next slide, please. This is just kind of a side by side. I was curious too about what percentage of cities of their budget goes towards senior programming. It usually comes through parks, parks and wreck. Um and you can see again u similarsized towns with their annual cont contribution. It's less than a percent across the board of of um uh the city budget. And yet at the same time 30% or more of your community members are seniors. So when I think about parks and a lot of the recreation things, what do we have that's helping seniors uh readily in our community? And you can see again on the bar graph where we're currently at and where we have that gap. Next slide. So why the gap matters? Um we don't have that senior center where people can come and do and have uh social service needs met. Um a gathering place. Again, CO I think did a number on students and olders and the rest of us probably stayed busy and made it through, but um some parts of our community members really were impacted. Uh seniors need to travel to Salem, Silverton, Stton to get any service services. And that's really you might as

well say it's 100 miles away even though it's it's close. It's not convenient. um increased isolation, transportation barriers, and then really unmet met needs in a in a time of high economic challenges. Woodburn matters because we're really positioned to be a regional service hub because of all these other small towns that that we can be that answer to that need. As we've already mentioned, the high concentration of older adults, that growing population in the next 10 years of that's going to get even larger as a percentage and there really is very limited infrastructure available. Um, I'm not going to talk about this tonight, but that has been a plan with the Greater Woodburn Opportunity Center, which has been sponsored by Emanuel Lutheran Church, and it still isn't a a go forward move. It's uh we have faith and and things are looking up in some areas, but that's where the senior center would be coll-located to have an efficiency. Instead of a single space that was dedicated to seniors, it would be shared space. Next slide, please. So, now I'm going to uh introduce to you one of my new friends and that is Lam Man Bush who lives here in Woodburn and she has some important words to share. Terry asked me to tell you a little bit about me and why the senior center is important to me. Um, I grew up most of my growing up years in Woodburn. Graduated from Woodburn High School in 1964, went up to Seattle Pacific, met my love, got married, um, and started my teaching career up there. Uh in 1975 we moved back to the Woodburn area and I um was teaching middle school at Brooks and then became the pre

superintendent principal there for 10 years and then went over to Nia School District on the coast and was superintendent there for 11 years. Um, so I've always had a really active life and had my fingers in a lot of things. Well, shortly after moving back to Woodburn, um, my husband passed away very unexpectedly. And then I developed stage four metastatic cancer, which I'm still fighting. And I pretty much was isolated in the house. I couldn't be out around people or at least not large groups of them and I was just vegetating. One of my doctors suggested that I seek out a senior or adult center. I didn't know if Woodburn had one, but I happened to see something on Facebook and went and it has been a godsend for me. Um, I love the socialization. And you wonder, well, why is socialization important? Uh, Dr. Vivet Murthy, who was our former attorney general, uh, oversaw a study in 2023 on loneliness and isolation in seniors. And they found that the data shows that being isolated and lonely is imp is as impactful on your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

So, it really does make a difference. I've enjoyed activities. I've enjoyed just sitting at the table eating and visiting with people. Um the connection has been important for me and as a result I'm now doing more things outside and reaching out in different ways. So it is an important um facility and it's an important organization for our community. The population at the adult center is very diversified. We have people from all walks of life, all backgrounds, but you get together and you visit and you share and it reinvigorates you. It really does. Thank you for listening.

Thank you. Thank you for sharing. Okay, now the fun part, the next slide. Um, we uh hosted the chamber. Before you go on, I have someone else that wanted to speak. This might be a good time before you get into your Angel. Yeah. Angel, did you want to come and talk over here? Angel, sit down over here. There's another. Yeah, you can sit over there. Sorry for interrupting. No, no, that's great. No, it's perfect timing.

Angel, it's good to see you again. Nice seeing you too, Mr. Frank. As you know, my name is Angel Alejandro. I'm my friend residents all my life. I've been here since little kid. I went to school here from grade school to high school. Back then, um I used to work for United Disposal. Now it's the the Republican

Republican, you know, Republic. And um I go to the Whipper and Forest Square Church here in Wood Whipper on Lincoln Street. It's an honor for me to go there. And my pastor is Luis Molina. And he's an awesome pastor by the way. One day out of the blue, he asked me, "Hey, Angel at church, you know, he asked me, "Do you want to help at at the Lutheran church cuz I need a translator?" I go, "Okay, sure." You know, been like two, three years now. And it's been a privilege. They treat me like family there and they treat me like my own, you know, and I'm and I help out uh I'm a do the walking people there by the door. I'm by the door by the kitchen and I help out and give them out their food, you know, as many food as they want. You know, they thank me. Some of them, you know, they know me by my name. Others just shake my hand. Thank you very much. God bless you. Blah blah blah. But uh and this occasion I will never forget.

Sorry.

Take your time. Yes. Uh, out of the blue, you know, I'm doing the video. This man, I don't know where I mean, first time and last time I ever seen them. And he asked me, I asked him, "How many food do you want?" Meals, you know. Oh, two. Okay. I gave him his food. There you go. Then he I all a sudden he just gave me a big old hug, you know, like and uh he goes, "God bless you." And and you know, he asked my name. I gave him out my name. He said, "I haven't eaten for the last two to three days, you know, and and I really appreciate what you're doing, you know." And so I said, "Okay, you're more than welcome, you know, and so like I said, it touched, you know, touched my heart, you know, and I'm privileged to help out, you know, and I'm just doing it for the for God's work, you know, not for me. It's God's work, you know, cuz he's the one that gave us life, you know, and so I don't want to take the credit. I wanted the whole, you know, city of Woodburn and these company, you know, our company I say and uh they deserve all the credit, you know, for what they're doing, you know, and we have an awesome cook there, Phil. Phil, you know, he's a real good cook. And I jokingly tell him, I only eat good on Wednesdays. And so and uh the devil center on Wednesdays, you know, I get along with the people there cuz they all know who I am and like Terry says, I call the

numbers for bingo, you know, and you know, they they asked me, "Hey, you want to call?" Okay, I'll call. So, but yeah, I I just want to thank the people here the, you know, for the center and um I'm just glad to be there, you know, and I appreciate for what they do behind closed doors, you know, cuz not not everybody takes their time take their their time out of their time to do volunteers work, you know, nonprofit, you know, and you know, that's Angel. Thank you for coming and speaking tonight. Thank you for your support. Yeah, you're more than welcome. Okay. Thank you. I guess have a good night. You too.

Yeah, most people would rather rather die than public speak. So when he said, "I want to come and talk tonight." And I said, "All right, Angel." Um, so as you can see, yeah, there's a place for everybody. Everybody has a role in volunteerism. The next piece I want to show you, we did um um a 2025 recap of and again, keep all in mind. Uh what you'll see is a a video. It's like six or so minutes long of here's what we did and here's what we offer. and take a look.

all done by volunteers. Pretty impressive. Yes. Um and yes, thank you.

And I think Heather handed this out. This is a April just as an example of what a typical month of programming looks like. Um, and we're adding more more things. Um, so again, doing this on a shoestring um, has been a trick, but it's been really important. And, um, I retired at the end of December, and so I've been able to spend um, like today I was there from 9:30 or 10 until 5. So, you know, just seeing the difference that it makes to people to be together when they if this wasn't available, they wouldn't have a place to go. So, just want to close uh with the fact that North Marian County is a growing region as many apartments and housing are going up. I'm thinking, wow, we've got lots and lots of more people moving in into the community and more places being developed. Together we can build a solution that supports aging, dignity, and uh care and connection. The senior citizens of Woodburn need your support. I know you're in that budget, that fund budget process, but uh in your preparation of 2627 budget. Please consider contributing and be uh beginning partnership with North Marian Adult Center. So, thank you very much for your time and attention. And um there's my Yes,

I had one question. You're welcome. Welcome. Are you making the same presentation to the Marin County Commissioners?

That will be next. I Yeah, you're my sphere. Yes. Yes. This is my starting point. Yeah. Commissioners will be next and then some of the other towns. But yeah, um thank you. Yeah, we I think you know um if you're involved with church communities, many church communities are in transition just as our churches of kind of dying and rising to something new. And so I think um the ones that we have given present uh presentations to and invited are the ones who are participating in funding. But yes, um it's it's a tricky time.

Well, the city of Wood as far as on the community meal, that was community meal. Yeah. So, we received $16,000 dedicated from uh the ARPA funding that we're in process of getting reimbursement on. So that that is different than the senior center meals. Does that help? Yeah. Okay. Any other questions? Terry, you see that that we're building a community center? Yeah. And I appreciate the support that you've done for that. Can you see the North Marian Adult Center being part partnering with us and we're building?

It's possible. Um, I think you know the vision that we had cast with the Greater Woodburn Opportunity Center was that it was identified when when we surveyed and had meetings in 2015 of community members is what is it that Woodburn needs and that's really been the essence of the greater Woodburn opportunity center concept um of a senior center uh Oregon childhood development will be there also. So intergenerational. We just actually this last week we had the sore success high school students came and served helped to serve lunch. So um for up until this moment um it has always been a part of the greater Woodburn opportunity center concept so that we would be using that as multi-use space and shared space. Um so yeah I don't I haven't given any thought to that. So yeah. Yeah sure. Are you asking for anything in particular tonight?

Um, uh, in talking with other friends who had been on, um, city councils, they said, um, it would be assumptive for me to make a suggestion of an amount. Um, I would say the amounts that I that I share with what other communities are um, pledging between two and 6% of their budget. Um, and I think you can see the numbers. I know that in in a time where um number crunching is happening everywhere with economics um I would say some part of a beginning support with a growth number because as we continue to grow and grow staff and activities and programming you know again it's it's um paying our folks a livable wage so that down the road we can continue to attract um program leaders staff staffing that will be paid a livable wage and not a sub wage just because it's a nonprofit.

Council have any other questions? I just want to comment Terry. I've had the opportunity to collaborate with you over the years because uh working with the senior community is also one of my passions. Um and I just want to say thank you for your continued advocacy and the hard work you and your team do. Um thank you so much. Um a lot of hard work. So my hats off to you. Thank you. Yeah, thank you said Mr. Mayor. I Terry, I have some ideas about how you might be able to approach the other local governments in the county with a proposal. I mean, there's some ideas I'm happy to share with you. Thank you. Yeah.

Thank you. Any other comments? I well I had two questions and and cognizant that you're a volunteer and I don't want to create more work for you but but I wonder if you had any numbers in terms of people served at the center you know over time and then whether somehow or maybe I imagined a proposed budget for I do have we do I did I haven't seen we I did I do have a proposed budget yeah that information to us it's

and I left a blank when I when I presented this to the chamber because um Woodburn was TBD because we hadn't had this conversation. So we have grants that are in ask right now but the bulk of most senior center comes from city parks and wreck. Um, so yeah, so it was I didn't want to be assumptive and put $100,000 or $400,000 because I think we're at step A. And so um yeah, I would say if you want to see the budget, I would love to share that with you, but I didn't think it was appropriate to expend more than my 20 minutes tonight. Oh no, I haven't stepped down. I'm the chair. We have an executive director. I decided I retired from my car business world at the end of December so I could Yes. So, I'm out of the car business. I'm 62 and I'm finally released. So, yes, let me out.

Yeah, absolutely. It's what it's all about. community, right? I think we're all very appreciative of what you and the center does and what the the church does. Certainly the the meals are it's sad that we have to do that, but it's certainly uh obviously needed. So, no, definitely appreciate all you do. Thank you for a very good presentation and the information was very very informative. I'll look forward to hearing back from you. I hope. Yes. Just tell me when. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. It's right in the If you drive down Lincoln, right in front of Emanuel Lutheran, there's a tin shed out there. You just throw your bottles in there and Yep. Awesome.

Awesome. That's good to know. It is. Thank you. Keep drinking. Right. Water bottles. Right. That's the police chief back there. So, moving on. Yeah, we do not have any communication to share.

Um, next up is business from the public. This allows the public to introduce items for the council consideration not already scheduled on the agenda. Comment time will be limited to 3 minutes. And I did get a card from Regina Freeland before I invite you up. Um, your your comment is is regarding the flock cameras or your and so I'm thinking that I might ask our city administrator was going to be part of his report tonight was the current city's position and what we're doing. I'd still after Scott talks, if you still want to come up if this doesn't cover your questions, please feel free to come on up.

Scott, do you want to get into your Yeah, no problem. Um,

yeah, so under my city manager report tonight, one of the items I was going to report to the city council on was sort of the status of our current agreement with the Flock uh license plate reader system. And uh this past week we've had members of our staff attending just a general law enforcement technology conference in Tennessee and Flock camera system was there along with other license plate reader programs. Uh in addition to that we have been meeting with uh there was a meeting with our uh staff and the flock system as well as uh other providers. After the conclusion of that meeting at the police department, uh it was recommended to me that as a budget officer, I not allocate funding for the contract renewal for Flock camera, which I am proposing to the budget committee. However, prior to that, I'm going to ask that the city council convene um our uh our our camera committee, if you will, which consists of two counselors. Mayor Mark and

I think uh councelor Bravo. Bravo. Yeah. And uh

review that particular recommendation uh and then recommend that the city council then uh move to cancel the flat camera agreement after the conclusion of the uh budget committee meeting which which will put us in a position of doing so by defunding the contract. Um, you know, it's been kind of a long road to get here and there's been a variety of reasons why the city has worked to obtain data and maintain communications with Flock through the controversy to uh to ensure that we are getting the information we felt that we needed to be transparent with the community and also uh as we work through the legalities of the matters. But I think this is the position we're in now. Um, and this is the the plan that I I have a city manager to uh try to bring this particular issue with flat cameras to resolution.

So, can we try and have this meeting in the next within the next week? Yeah, I was going to ask the city, you know, the the members of the committee tonight to um, you know, be prepared. We're going to coordinate that meeting. Um my goal is to try to have that completed in the next you know so many days depending on the people's uh calendars availability.

Yeah, I believe they well I might I don't want to speak out of turn here on technical matters. It's my understanding that the camera systems are owned by Flock and that they would uh they would maintain their their equipment. So yes, they would be removed and be in the ownership of of Flock. Thank you. So Jay, do you still want to come up and speak? Good evening. Good evening.

Good evening, council. My name is Regina Freeland and I have lived in Woodburn since 2006 and I have two children. My elder child is 20 years old and is on track to graduate from Mount Holio College this May. My younger child is 13 years old and is an eighth grader at French Prairie. Because my children are 7 years apart, I have been involved in our school system a long time. I've seen many changes over the years, and the two most significant are the pandemic and the political vilifying of immigrants and people of color. With the pandemic, children learn to stay home to stay safe from existential threats. For 2 or 3 years, they stayed home and didn't receive the socialization that helps young people grow into stable adults. They did Zoom school until noon, and then many were babysat by the internet or were saddled with adult responsibilities because their families had to work to survive. Returning to school afterwards was rocky. The children didn't know how to sit quietly, peacefully resolve conflict, or be themselves in real life without a screen. My younger child was absent a lot in the sixth grade due to health problems and bullying. Trying to get a scared, upset child off to school is hard. You can't very well drop an ill or sobbing child off of the curb. So, schools press the importance of attendance, citing studies showing how attendance is one of the biggest determinating factors in low test scores and dropping out. Seems like every newsletter and parent night has a section on the importance of attendance. While the effects of the pandemic are fading from school life, a new threat has grown and is causing fear, distress, and a dip in attendance. While we can't solve the terror of ice at the city level, we do control whether or not we keep the flock cameras. Is there something in the flock contract that is causing you to drag your feet? I haven't read the contract. Have you? A significant number of our children know, live, or love someone who is undocumented. Additionally, our community's children rely on free lunch

and breakfast at school. When they miss school, they miss meals. How do you think it makes these children and families feel to have to go past a flock camera? And yes, many of these creepy cameras are positioned at or nearby our schools. You say they are turned off, but they don't look any different than when they were turned on, and certainly no less scary to a child. How are we supposed to restore trust with our students and community as long as these cameras physically remain to intimidate our community? Our children learned from the pandemic to stay home when it's scary outside. They don't differentiate between viral threats and racial ones. Any way you lose your family is scary. And now only now there's no Zoom school to mitigate the loss of education. All they have is us grown-ups who could remove a threat to our children's emotional well-being and education and are choosing not to. Please choose better.

Thank you very much, Command. And I can assure you the cameras have been off since last October. I know, but a child wouldn't know that. Yeah. Moving on is the consent agenda. Items listed on the consent agenda are considered routine and may be adopted by one motion. Any item may be removed for discussion at the request of council member. May you please have the city recorder to read the items allowed that are on the consent agenda. And uh remember any councelor can pull one off if they want.

The items on the consent agenda are as follows. Woodburn city council minutes of March 23rd, 2026. New development activity for March 2026. Updated firearms range use agreement with Hubard Police Department and updated firearms range use agreement with Silverton Police Department. Thank you. Any councelor K to have more discussion on any of those? Hearing nothing, I would entertain a motion to adopt the set agenda as presented. I move to adopt the consented agenda as presented. Second. It's moved and seconded. All in favor signify with an I. I. Opposed.

Thank you. So, we do not have a public hearing. Glad for that. We do not have any other general business other business. I do not have anything from the planning commission tonight. Uh, next up is city manager report. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I happen to cover most everything on my list except the one thing uh about the library. So, the the library roof project is a little bit ahead of schedule and it's going fine. Uh, still hopes to be done by mid June. And then, um, I don't want to steal the mayor's about the state of the city address on Monday morning at Greeters on the 24th. Friday, Friday, the 20th Friday the 25th. 20. I got so many meetings stacked up. I'm not sure, but it's a it's a week from this Friday.

I'll be here. Uh, yes. So, um, that's all I have, Mr. Mayor, unless there's any questions. Thank you. And is there an expected completion of the library? Yeah. Is it before December? Before mid June. June. Okay. Yeah, I can hear them. They hardworking. Uh, moving on to council's reports. Uh, council I am nothing to report it. Things's going good. Good presentations today. It was a good meeting to hear from the public. Very good.

Thank you, Council Ku. I've got nothing.

So, I have saved your date, but before I do that, you know, bad as the noise of the roof at the library must feel to the mayor, imagine how a librarian feels all that thing. Um, so save your date. May 22nd at 5:00 pm there's going to be a cafeita cafesito with Liberty House at the Four Square Church and it'll be a event Liberty House has now been with us for about a year and it's going to be an opportunity for folks to come out learn a little bit more about the programs that uh Liberty Out House um sponsors and works with the youth to work with uh here in Woodburn. Um it will also be kind of a light fundraising touch, but there'll be some refreshments, some entertainment, and uh I will be a table captain. And so if anyone's interested in in joining me at this event, u I I no cost. It's free admission,

but I'd be happy to have you sit at my table. Could you repeat the date and time for that? Uh it's uh May 22nd um from 5 to 7 p.m. Can you get a copy of that? Yeah. At the force square church and I'll I'll send you all. Thank you. Please. Yes. Anything else? Nope. Thank you, Mr. President.

Yes. Um I was fortunate to um attend um partners in community care at Salem Health and also San um hospital. And um it was a breakfast and I came away with a few um kind of healthc care head moments that they um reported and I've only marked four but these had such an impact on me I thought sharing with everybody. One of the things that was um said is Medicare Medicaid reimbursement projected to drop by $50 million locally. And um Medicaid only pays 56 cents of every dollar it costs to provide care today. Up to 70% of our patients rely on Medicare, Medicaid, or other government funded cover. The passage of the HR1, and that was through the big beautiful bill, um is projected to rem remove $1 trillion in healthc care spending nationally over the next decade. And then last one is over the next four years, Oregon is projected to lose 661 million as an impact of the HR1 and the state lacks a plan to address this shortfall. And I know, you know, we're all in a budget process and all of this, but you know, learning these facts was startling to me. So I just want to share with them

that's all I have to I happen to attend with the council president and it was yeah very very telling u they talked a lot about bringing sanium hospital in and partnering with them how they can save there and they haven't given up on woodburn but uh we're still still talking council bravo no updates for me just another thank you to all the pre to the presenters today and thank you to um you know all those that are helping the children uh who have suffered abuse. Um and thank you to all the volunteers in our community that really help make this such a strong city. So very grateful for all of their contributions and their hard work. So

thank you. Well said.

Yes. Council Kang mentioned the second Friday that the staff did a great job together and displaying all of their art through this time tonight. I would encourage you I know the museum's open Thursday, Friday, Saturday afternoons. So if you want to go student art, that would be a good time to do that. Um, I wanted to perhaps ask Jamie to share a little bit about what the city is looking forward to at the end of this month in about two weeks and sink as well. kind of back to back each other but uh yeah

yes so um we've spoken of this a few times now but we were asked about a year and a half ago by state heritage office which is state's heritage office to hold for Woodward to host the Oregon Heritage Conference in 2026 which is a of course America's 250 as well as their 60th year Oregon Heritage's 60th year and it is upon us I think our year and a half is now two weeks away so it's been you know a lot of work um I don't know how the state does this every couple of years but it's so exciting for Woodburn we found out today we just had a meeting with the team um in Salem this afternoon and we're at 305 registers.

Wow. 305 individuals. We'll spend three days in downtown Woodbury and Woodbury. Nice.

Um we'll be doing we'll have um sessions and workshops at city hall, the library, chamber office, and the bungalow theater. And we'll have some at Shemecka and some over Lodge. So, we're going to be a little bit of everywhere. Signage will be everywhere. Um we have been working with um the downtown businesses preparing them. So we have another meeting with them next week to prepare them for this community people in downtown for a period of time which is tremendously exciting. Um we'll also be doing tours over in Aurora. We'll be taking individuals over to Aurora. We'll be having our public arts and murals committee as well as our down downtown committee doing walkounds down with members. By the way, DAR's members at the table here. Uh we actually are double the number started this summer at 30 people on the tour and another 28 um in standby there. So which is really exciting when we touring the um historic sing hall building and the Masonic building total

allegedly. Yeah, Jamie, can you talk about the parking a little bit? I think that's been

the post office. We'll have signage up. We've created a map saying where you can park. So, there'll be the um parking lot behind the post office. Um Sheckch is allowing us to use their extra lot, their overflow lot. um on and of course de Mayo is Friday but we should be kind of completing our our workshops by that time and then um the Wither's family is allowing us to use their lot on Young Street right across from the river.

Yeah, Curtis was great. He met with one of the representatives walk the lot be great for the purposes. So we'll be utilizing that as well. Um, we've talked to the business owners B time about not parking and taking up all the parking spaces. And then Oregon Heritage is also providing a shuttle from the um, bus stop over on 214. So that's a park and ride lot. So a lot of folks are staying in Woodburn at the art hotels. Wilsonville, one of the best westerns up there. Um, and the two hotels in Silverton and I believe Kaiser Station that there Kaiser Station staying at that hotel. when you got 300 people and they got to put themselves to accommodate them all. Um, we're really excited. We're gonna be touring the Abby, our tour guys for that one along with Father Andrew. So, really excited about that. It's just going to be a huge thing for the community. Um, there's a big dinner bash where the mayor and Scott will welcome everybody. We'll have some band playing. So, we're super excited about it.

Try and get into the museum up at the Abbey as well. Um coffee the other night we're going to the library the museum walk the grounds and then he is inviting the group the tour group to um particip I'm personally I've never seen it supposed to be pretty phenomenal to be participating it's it's exciting and I will be so thrilled for May 31 I bet she's got plenty tickets.

No, as much work as it is that we're doing this, um I I can't imagine what to do. So, it seems really busy, but our whole focus is downtown and we are so excited and honored to have it here. Nice. Sharon would surely say it's because of you and the staff that we're able to pull this off. And if it doesn't all work smoothly, we'll never know that because

they'll never know that. We're glad to do that. No, it's really um that it's an honor it truly is to be a part of it, but it's because of the work we as a community have done. Um you know, we've got act staff working on it. threat justice team working on it. Bren is working on it. I'm pretty sure at some point Heather's going to be drugged in and entertainment all the work we do as a as a community and as a staff at the city and the great leadership really. I mean Scott told us no. Right. Well, I it is really exciting for the city and um I think the council should I mean the city council had a lot to do with this over the years. They're coming to Woodburn because of the work that's happened in Woodburn and we're showing off a lot of the things that were significant goals and accomplishments established by the city over the years from everything we've done downtown, the murals, the redevelopment, the investments, the improvements. Um, you know, it's quite remarkable and it's kind of exciting that other other places want to come here to see what we've done and that's primarily because of the leadership of the council over time.

Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Time. Never mind. Never mind. I'll I'll send an email to Scott. Sure. No problem.

Okay. You know, like Scott said, there are so many good things going on in Woodburn that uh we have to be proud of. It's not the the buildings and the grills, but the the events. Um there was an event just last Friday that uh no one has talked about. the uh city sponsor or hosted about 20 grad students from the University of Oregon and Portland State and there are different uh panels of all of our department heads that got up and spoke and telling them what not only is what Woodburn has to offer but how they got to where they were and and study and that's really I I it went very well. I was able to hear some of the uh some of the discussions. So I thank you all for participating in that. That was very good. Very good event. Um couple other things that I have is I did attend along with the our council president. I went to the state of the county address uh which didn't talk about Woodburn at all, which that's okay, but talked a lot about water and and uh sewer issues going up the uh the canyon. And that's where a lot of attention is is going that way. and the the other main attention was uh homelessness and the support of uh of of that. So it it was interesting and we have overall things are going pretty good in the county and that's uh I was glad to hear that. Um want to thank the Masons. We had a breakfast here a couple Saturdays ago that they offered to the uh food bank employees and I think that was very much appreciated one morning and a couple of us were able to attend that. So, thank you. So, like I say, it's been busy. Let's keep it up. Thank you council for being

part of this and I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. Second. All in favor signify I I opposed. Thank you guys.