City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. It's 7 o'clock. I will call our city council meeting of June 8th to order. We will start in a flag salute, which Councilor Wilk, would you please lead us in? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Can we have a roll call, please?

Councillor Cornwell? Present. Councillor Bravo?

Present.

Councillor Schaub? Here. Councillor Wilk? Here. Councillor Cantu? Here. Councillor Villalba? Present. Mayor Lonergan?

Here. Thank you. See, we have a few announcements. Just a few.

Okay, bear with me, everyone. First, congratulations to the Woodburn High School Class of 2026. 391 graduates and, get this, $7,468,488 in merit scholarships. Wow. So pretty amazing group of kids.

made presentations to our winners. They were very happy from what the council was able to offer that.

And that was, yeah, a city award. So great job, kids. This Wednesday marks the last day of classes for our local students. As summer break begins, please remember that children will be spending more time outdoors, walking, biking, and playing in our neighborhoods. help keep everyone safe by slowing down staying alert and driving with extra care wishing all of our students families and staff a fun safe and enjoyable summer break and then the school district events for this week june 8th valor 8th grade promotion at 6 p.m Washington site council meeting at Washington Elementary School at 6 p.m. And then June 9th is French Prairie's eighth grade promotion at 6 p.m. And they have a board work session at the district office at 545. June 10th, Nellie Muir has a kinder promotion at 9 a.m. And Washington's fifth grade promotion is at 530 on June 10th as well. And then Friday, June 12th is Fridays on Front, Dessert and Art Walk from 5 to 8, Bungalow Theater, is it like walk through there? Tickets can be purchased online or at the door. See last Friday's e-blast for more information. and then national night out is tuesday august 4th national night out brings neighbors law enforcement and community partners together to strengthen relationships build safer neighborhoods and foster a stronger sense of community neighborhood events if you want to register your neighborhood you can do that on the police department's website And then City Hall and the library will be closed on June 19th in observance of Juneteenth. The transit will still be operating from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. And then the City Council meeting and community barbecue is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, July 14th at 6 p.m. to coincide with music in the park over at the library. That's all I got.

Thank you. And that meeting on July 14th will be some recognition of some citizens here in the city to the public. And a good barbecue. We do not have any appointments. We do not have any community or government organizations. I do not have proclamations or presentations. will fall under public hearing. Do not have any communications that are not already in the packet. So it comes to business from the public. This allows the public to introduce items for council consideration that is not already scheduled on the agenda. Comment time will be limited to three minutes. Is there anyone from the public that would like to come up to speak? Something that is not already on the agenda? Now is the time. Thank you. And moving on, we will go to 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 a council member. I'd like the city recorder please to read the items aloud that are on the consent agenda.

The items on the consent agenda are as follows. Woodburn City Council minutes of May 11, 2026, traffic enforcement report February through April 2026, and acceptance of a dedication deed right-of-way at South Boone's Ferry Road.

Any questions, concerns, anything anyone would like to call up? then not hearing anything i would entertain a motion to adopt the consent agenda as presented do not have any table business moving on we have public hearing or two tonight FIRST UP IS APPEAL OF PLANNING COMMISSION APPROVAL OF ENROLLMENT AND DESIGN REVIEW, PROPERTY LINE ADJUSTMENT, STREET ADJUSTMENT, AND VARIANCE APPLICATION PACKAGE, THE WINCO. SO I WILL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. DO WE HAVE ANY DECLARATIONS FROM THE COUNSELORS FOR ANY POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST? POTENTIAL SITE VISITS? HAS ANYONE EVER DRIVEN BY THAT STREET? OF COURSE. SO WE ALL KNOW WHERE IT'S AT. Any expertise, any employees on the council? No. Does anyone challenge? The audience challenge anyone on the council? No. Moving on to the public hearing statement.

Both Oregon law and the Woodburn development ordinance govern evidentiary quasi-judicial land use hearings and require that at the commencement of the hearing this statement be read to all persons in attendance. The applicable substantive criteria for this land use decision are listed in the staff report and are as follows. Woodburn Development Ordinance Sections 2.03, 2.05, 2.06, 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 3.07, 3.10, 3.11, 4.01, 4.02, 5.01.08, 5.03.02, 5.03.03 and 5.03.12. The hearing will proceed in the following general order. Staff report, applicant's presentation, testimony in favor of the application, testimony in opposition to the application, rebuttal, closure of record, deliberation, and decision. All testimony, arguments, and evidence must be directed towards the applicable substantive criteria just stated or other criteria in a plan or land use regulation that the person believes to apply to the decision. Failure to raise an issue accompanied by statements or evidence sufficient to afford the decision maker and the parties an opportunity to respond to the issue precludes appeal to the Oregon Land Use Court of Appeals based on that issue. failure of the applicant to raise a constitutional or other issue relating to proposed conditions of approval with sufficient specificity to allow the local government to respond to the issue precludes an action for damages in circuit court any party wanting a continuance or to keep the record open must make that request while the record is open thank you we have staff report

You want to go over any potential biases, et cetera? All good? Great. Good evening. Council, I'm Chris Curry, Community Development Director. I'm going to walk through the presentation. With me is Fernando Torres, who you haven't seen before. Glad to have him here. He's been a tremendous help on this. Great asset to our department. So this is specifically an appeal application for the Winco Food Grocery. Walk through a bit of the timeline, then I'll cover some of the aspects of what you're going to be required to do or asked to do this evening. And then I'm going to cover the specifics of the proposal. So back in December 12, 2025, they submitted their application, moved forward through the design review, planning, completeness, process, reviews from ODOT, Public Works, everybody else that goes through it. Got scheduled and held our Planning Commission hearing on March 12th, 2026. At that time, we kept the record open for additional testimony and rebuttal. That was at a request from the applicant. Came back on April 23rd, and the Planning Commission at that time heard final deliberations and approved the application with some conditions, and I'll cover what all those are. And then on May 11th, an appeal of that decision was received by a group called Protect Our Valley. I'll call them POVA in here. And their letter with their issues that they raised on appeal are included in the package. So specifically before tonight, this is a de novo hearing. So we don't get too many appeals at the city council level. In this case, it's an appeal hearing for what we call a Type 3 land use application package. Those are approved by the Planning Commission. Unless they're appealed, then that decision gets bumped up to the City Council. And de novo is important because that sort of means as new. It's the reason we're holding the entire hearing again, and anyone can come in and submit testimony, even if you weren't part of the previous hearing that we had at the Planning Commission level. Specifically, this is for a property line adjustment, which is pretty minor. I'll describe each one of these. The design review, which is sort of like a site plan review. A street adjustment, which is sort of like a minor variance to a street component that we have in our public works plans and our zoning codes. And then three variances. The council is tasked with verifying compliance with the applicable development standards and considering especially any discretionary requests. Those would be things like the three variances that you see over here. And issuing ultimately a final decision. If someone who has standing disagrees with the decision and they have an opportunity to file the appeal of your decision to LUBA, the Land Use Board of Appeal. And I always point out the staff report and all its attachments have been entered into the record. Just to bring everyone up to speed as to where we're at, I have the area starred. We're on the west side of Evergreen Road, which swings around. Right in here, we're right on the bend. This is Center Street on the north side of the property. And I-5 is, you see, highlighted out here with, oddly enough, the Winco Distribution Center on the west side of I-5. And right next to the property, I'll show more details in a moment, is Stacy Allison Way. Kind of bringing in and talk about some of the zoning and the surrounding uses, that's an important component. Aerial image on the left hand side shows the property, brought in highlighted the site. You can see it's two lots, I'll talk about why that's important. And the zoning on the property is this general commercial, which is the, that's our general retail district. Everything in orange is in that color, all along Stacey Allison Way. On the east of it, you'll see these hatched areas. These are residential areas. One's medium residential. The other's lower, sort of an RSM, which is like a single family residential. But those are our nodal zones. Some of you remember those. We talk a lot about them. That nodal district that we have, the purpose of that nodal district is to try to keep residential and commercial areas in close proximity and create as many ties as we can to them, be it vehicular, pedestrian connections, transit, these types of things. and to have some higher density. And when the city does promote higher density, we're supposed to keep it in those nodal areas for obvious reasons to keep commercial and residential in pretty close proximity. Another important component is this entire area is part of the interchange management area. I'm going to talk about that more later. Might remember some of that from before. Just to give you an idea of the site, what it looks like out there today, just kind of looking north if you're standing on Evergreen Road, the site's vacant, there's nothing on the property. It's a bit unusual that all the frontage improvements are already put on that site as well as the rest of those commercial parcels along Stacey Allison. They were done about 25 years ago, 23 years ago. It's a bit odd that a developer would come in, put in the improvements, sidewalks utilities you can see the fire hydrants um they did these obviously actually stacy allison to put all those in prior to the development coming in that was done at that time i'm sure with the hope that something was going to happen quickly it didn't so it's been sitting during that time that's just a bit peculiar that's the that's sort of the background for it it's been sitting in those uh in that state since then Looking to the south, sort of southwest, as we look on here, there's an existing wall that exists along this south property. This is Cascade Meadows, the apartment building to the south. You see in that small brown area, covers a corner of adjacent property. The rest of it's covered in commercial, or surrounded by commercial and residential. right away, but that particular segment includes this wall, which is not technically a requirement under our code. It's what they call a discretionary decision that could have been made at the time the apartments went up. They decided to put up the wall with the anticipation. I'm sure the commercial was next door.

So the apartment complex maintains it?

Yeah, it's on their property. So if you read through the report, one of the sort of discussions that came up was what should happen with this wall. And what the applicant proposed was leave the wall in its current shape, work with them to try to clean up this side of the wall, and then instead just put trees and plantings on the area you're looking at is sort of the side of the property, the vacant area. Rather than disrupt this, those big mature trees serve as a really good buffer. And rather than disturb those in that existing wall, it didn't seem worth it. So that was the recommendation. Just in terms of making sure we're all on the same page as to what the use is, our grocery convenience stores are identified in our commercial zone as what we call a permitted use in this zone, which makes sense. This is our general retail zone. It's what almost all of 99 is. Think of that retail area. This is the retail frontage along I-5 that we've had for these years. And what is a permitted use? It means these land uses are permitted in this zoning district, and they're allowed outright, subject to the standards of the WDO. That means that they only go to the Planning Commission. If they meet those standards, they have to be approved, as opposed to a discretionary approval for things such as variances, which they've requested, that you have a lot more subjectivity on. Let's start with the property line adjustment, one component of the application. Pretty cut and dry. Right now there's two lots. They call them a lot 11 and 12, because as I said, this was planted previously around 22 years ago, give or take, when it got recorded. And they're going to be moving the lots. So the configuration is going to move that lot, squeeze it a little bit up, and create the same two lots. They're not adding a new lot. So it's what we call a property line adjustment. meets all of our minimum code requirements, meets all the requirements. They'll have to come in and finalize that before they finish. Nothing too complicated about it. I don't even have any extra conditions for it. It meets our minimum lot size. It's in the right location. We'll talk for a minute about how moving that over is going to create the opportunity for two more commercial lots on the outside here. I want to spend a few minutes kind of walking you through the site plan, which is the actual design review. And I've circled that north arrow because I'm going to talk about north and south. As you can see, Stacey Allison Way is here. We're technically, you can see it's sort of a northwest facing. for my purposes i tend to consider everything to the left side here facing interstate i-5 the west side so i consider this sort of the west side the north side would be center street i think that's pretty simple i think it's the way most people understand it even though it's on a curve if that helps a little So you can see evergreen here on the east side of the property. I'm going to walk through some of these specifics. And you see this green area over here? This was that lot that was created over here. This separate lot. So this is that new lot that's created here. And the Winko site's only developing the southern lot. It's an 84,000 square foot grocery store. In terms of parking, they're allowed as a maximum that we have in our code of 672 maximum. They're staying well under it. It's all over 500 spaces provided. You can see the green areas I've highlighted here show the kind of enhanced landscaping. I'm going to talk about that along both Stacy, which is misspelled, and Evergreen Road. Four driveways are proposed into the site. Two along Stacy, which is where the majority of traffic is supposed to come. And in fact, the anticipation is that truck traffic is gonna come in, enter from this southern Stacy driveway, come in, turn here. These driveways have been, or these drive aisles have been widened so that a truck can come in and back into this spot. And I'll show you some more details about that in a second. And then leave the same way. This new connection here on the center street would cross through the other parcel. And we have a condition that that would be an easement for 20 feet wide. That they can take access now. The goal here is that ultimately these will likely be split into two parcels. You can almost visualize what it would look like next to the grocery store. And then they'll only have this one access and they can take their access from the side.

Please. Chris, there's still... commercial land on the north side of Center Street. Is that correct? There is.

It's a bit unusual. So you can see this is what you're looking at. As I look at this, that's the southern part of the Walmart parking lot right here. And they have this kind of peculiar driveway that's stubbed out. This is all commercial CG land. We expect all this to be developed with commercial property. if you're looking for more of a visualization of it. I'll get to something interesting that happened on the south end of the site of the C.C. Allison. The main entry here is facing west, so it's out facing I-5. Their entry is, as you come in here, they have sort of this pronounced entry. I'll show you the architectural feature that they have at that entry. And they have these augmented what we call wide walkways. These are requirements in our code that come in. So you take this extra wide eight foot wide concrete path that has separate, you'll see this separated alternative materials as you cross the concrete as you're crossing the drive aisles. They'll have them on all three street frontages. I just highlighted them in red so that you can see them to get access. There's a mid-block pedestrian path. You see, these are pretty big blocks we have out here on the west side. And one of the big things we always try to promote is more cross-access pedestrian and vehicular. So that if someone in the community on the east side is trying to walk over, maybe not just to the Winko, but maybe they want to get to this lot to the south, that's commercial and they're blocked off, this would be another access point to make it easier for people to walk here. So they don't have to go all the way out to Center Street, come around the sidewalk, that would be a good half a mile walk to get in there. So things like this mid-block pedestrian path, which would be open to the public, is important. We also have these vehicular access points that have these connections as well. The point for these future vehicular connections between the parcels is so that you can keep people from having, if they want to visit this site and maybe other commercial sites along this commercial strip, they don't have to go back onto Stacy Allison and come back in. They can move between the properties. There's required covered bike parking, which is located out here. That's a covered one. There's short-term parking spaces located closer to the front door. All these things are code requirements, by the way, within our WDO. Bus stop with shelter is something that the applicant was requested to do. They're on board with it along Evergreen. We actually have, as part of our latest transit plan, a new route that we're going to run south, which I expect to start possibly later this summer. which is, as you know, right now we have a stop that comes down right behind the Walmart. Very similar situation. They have a, right on the back side of the building, they have this bus shelter there. This would be a very similar bus shelter located here. And then it would be right next to where this walkway will take you to the front door. That's one of our most popular stops, you can imagine, for our bus riders. So it's important that we be able to finish that connection. This will eventually swing down and serve all the new residential developments in the South. That was part of the recent transit plan we adopted. The truck loading bays, which are located here, as I pointed out, they face in this direction. And that was very deliberate. They're trying to keep them from facing towards the only adjacent residential, which is the apartments to the south here in Cascade Meadows. So they'll face in that direction, and their bays sit on that side. They're required to have some EV parking and chargers. They're requesting a variance. I'll talk about that in a minute. I just wanted to show you where the location of those were. They're going to provide less than is required. Landscaping, as you know, is always really important for the community and our department. We advocate as much as possible trying to get the thickest, densest buffers we can, particularly on right-of-ways. So we worked with the applicant. The code requires, in terms of landscape requirements, that you have what we call plant units. There's a lot of ways to do that. A larger tree is worth more units. Grass is worth almost none. So you have a variety of ways that an applicant can meet that unit count. They're required to have, based on the size of their property and the impervious area, a little over 2,000 plant units. They're providing a little over 3,800 units, so they're far exceeding it. But I wanted to point out what it looks like along the streets, because you've probably seen this before. This is something we try to incorporate into these landscape plans rather than just dropping them everywhere. We think it's important that as much as you can, you're seeing the street trees along, say, Stacy. And then behind it, we have this second tier of trees located in their landscape buffer that are spaced so that you can get this sort of, I guess, a denser buffer of trees.

Thank you.

They also have requirements, I'll talk about, to not only put trees in these every 10 spaces, our code requires trees within landscape aisles, in your parking areas, but they're gonna put in some stormwater bioswales in these as well at staff's request. It's not a code requirement, they just did it because we wanted to try to retain as much water as we could because in the long term, there is a concern about how we're gonna provide storm drainage. There's no concern now, they're literally the first parcel coming in since it came in and got flooded. This is an example of what those bioretention facilities are. So as you see, this is an example of a different site where they come in and they provide just a little more storm retention within their parking lot. So we have a code requirement that they provide at least 50% of those landscape islands have to include these. That came right from our public works department. It was just a request and they volunteered to include it with their plans. On the south side, I'm sorry, on the east side along Evergreen, which is really important because this is where most of the residents are located, Again, we have this double-tiered landscaping. These are trees you see in circles. The rest are shrubs, just to give you an idea of what they look like. And this is about, let's say, 30 expands. It's between 30 and, say, 45 feet of landscape buffer on their property on the backside. So if you're walking from the street, it goes six-foot landscape buffer with street trees, sidewalk, and then there's their property line. And then they have this about 35, 45-foot landscape buffer with more trees put in along this property line. We were looking for something somewhat similar to, I think the Walmart actually has pretty nice landscaping on the east side. It's really kind of hard to see their building. They hide it well. But interestingly, the Walmart property, the Walmart structure is only about 35 feet from behind the back of the sidewalk there. And then they have the landscaping. So this building, this 35 feet is going to be all landscaping. And then there's the building's another probably 45 feet behind that. So it's set back much further than the Walmart building. And if you're curious in terms of scale, because I think it matters, The Walmart building is 203,000 square feet. So 203,000 square foot building, quite large, one of the super centers. This building's 84,000 square feet, just to give you a scale idea. So somewhere between two and a half, the size would be the Walmart.

What's the height of the Walmart building?

Oh, man. You had to give me that one, didn't you? I can say they didn't get a variance from it. Single story. I'm going to guess 35 feet and probably within that area. So it hasn't changed in terms of the heights out there. And I'll talk about this building in a second. Moving on to kind of architectural design. This is the west elevation. Again, I call it the west. This is the view. You can see a little bit of the south. But this will be the view as you enter the site coming off Stacy Allison and the view from I-5. And you see this sort of enhanced entryway. WINCA has a few different entry designs they can come up with. They worked with staff, and this was sort of staff's choice of three different ones they sort of came in with. So we thought it worked, and it meets all of our architecture requirements on that side. The south elevation, which is the side that you think of sort of where it's about half commercial, half apartments, where the Cascades is. And you can see these are the loading bays that would drop down that are facing towards the west. We're standing sort of at the southwest corner of where the entry would be. This is what it looks like on that end. I think it was important that they've been fully enclosed. This is a generator building they have on this side. On the north side, it is a little flat. There's not a lot of articulation on the north side. And if you go through our architecture requirements, this technically meets the standards that the Planning Commission found that it did. This is where there's a little subjectivity. And the Planning Commission was satisfied that the other elements that they had met the requirement. This side that you see over here is actually going to be the side that would be essentially adjacent to the new commercial pod that's going to be built to the north, if that makes sense. However, that out parcel gets built up. Now there is a street adjustment application. This is that SA. It's not a full-blown variance, which is, of course, a variance which is something that you require hardship for, a much higher standard threshold to meet. This street adjustment is only on the Stacey Allison Way cross section. And I've given you an example. This is the current Stacey Allison Way. You can see the improvements that are put in there. And you don't have to spend a lot of time looking at this cross-section to understand. I want to walk you through when the apartments were built to the south about, or when they were approved, probably six years ago now, on Stacy Allison. They're called Allison Way Apartments. They're under construction now. Some are just being opened up, getting COs for. The council came in and actually requested an alternative cross-section on Stacy. And it has to do with the fact that this storm drain area to the west side, this would be I-5 on the west. I'm looking north on Stacy Allison. That's what this view is. You can see the Walmart way up here. This cross section runs actually well beyond that west side. So the center line to this road is way over here. What that means is we were getting squeezed on this side and the city council at the time wanted to make sure that we could keep this bike lane. That's the piece we were going to lose. So the new cross section will have the six foot bike lane five foot land five and a half foot landscape buffer as opposed to a six foot landscape buffer and then they're going to keep the proposed sidewalk and it's going to extend out into this property it's a bit different so we'll put an easement we're going to move everything back so that we can keep the cross section that we're familiar with which is the bike lane the six foot landscape offer in this case five and a half they took a few inches off of it the same six foot sidewalk and then all the landscaping that i discussed and showed you before will be on the back side here and the sidewalk is going to come in a few feet the reason staff asked the applicant to do that was because it's something that the city council recommended before and this will keep it consistent with the cross section that already exists we expect to keep asking for that cross section moving forward as as they build out stacy I want to talk a little bit about transportation impact analysis. It's one of the requirements under our code. We call it TIA. It came in. It was reviewed. By the way, when these are done, these are required by the city. We do a scoping memo is required before they walk in the door, where we Let them know which intersections we want to look at. We vet that through ODOT because we've got ODOT facilities impacted. And we have our own engineer that we hire who works for DKS Engineering who does our reviews. So not only do I look at it and the Public Works Department look at it, but we have a third-party reviewer that we have, and that's Rhea Boyd. Felisa Kowski, thank you so much. Sorry, her head. She's here to answer questions if you have any. And we've been in agreement that the TIA meets all of our code requirements, and ODOT has concurred with that information. We don't always agree with ODOT. So everyone's looked at that, determined it met those requirements walking in the door. They submitted their full-blown TIA. determined all those study locations. These are all the different intersections. We look at probably a dozen or maybe 15 different surrounding intersections and roadways. We look at safety issues, queuing issues, and what we call level of service issues, which can be either VC, volume to capacity, or what we call level of service, LOC. We measure those with either a ratio or essentially a letter grade that makes it really simple. And F is a failing grade to oversimplify. What we found out when we looked at all these interchanges around the area was that when you incorporate the Winko property and some of the improvements that I'll talk a little bit more details about, that it failed at three intersections. And they're the three intersections along Evergreen that should be pretty familiar to you. Stacey Allison and Evergreen. It's Harvard and Evergreen. And it's Hayes and Evergreen. And we'll talk about that in a second. They're failing now. They were shown to fail. So no surprise, they failed when they ran their analysis as well. These were included in our TSP, you might remember, during our last update when we did it, and we just had a broader recommendation for developers to take a look at that, whether it be a signal or a circle or some other improvements to try to alleviate the problems there. And as you know, because we just had it about a month ago on your agenda, we've started moving forward with some of the design work for those improvements. Give you a feel for where they are. This is the newly adopted transportation system plan. These dots are what are highlighted as improvements that the city has identified improvements we want to see over the next 40 years. 35 years, actually. These identified as 1, 2, 3. These are the improvements I'm talking about. Those were identified. They're called out. We put them in our CIP already. And these are the improvements that you sort of see. You've seen the design work that we're working on now. So Stacy Allison in Evergreen is going to have a new light. And as part of that, we're designing it so that trucks coming southbound on Evergreen, it'll be widened so that they can easily make that right-hand turn so that they come in and access the Walmart right here, Stacey Allison right here, and for the future development of our industrial area. So this is really part of a long-term plan. We're just front-loading it now, and now is a good time to do that. And the money we're going to receive from the WinCo with their SDC money, which is about $7.6 million, is certainly going to help alleviate that. These projects right now are about $8.5 million is what we're guesstimating right now at our design work. So a new light at Hays and Evergreen and a new traffic circle. These are not exact representations. These are illustrative only. Don't walk into them. As I mentioned, kind of these following bullets at the bottom of the TA, those SDCs being helped pay for that construction. No other mitigations were required or necessary, even by ODOT. But when we came in, ODOT said, you know, it works right now. It meets our, actually, standards. It meets our letter grades that they have and the ratios that they put on it for capacity. particularly at 214 and Evergreen, that ODA intersection. It met the standard, not by a lot, but it still met it. And they said, you know, it's going to be a future problem. We know it will for sure. They couldn't put that requirement on WinCo. We can't do that because it's a future problem that they sort of anticipate. But they did say this is a recommendation that we think would help alleviate it in sort of a midterm, right, not long term. That's going to cost tens of millions of dollars. but there are some short-term improvements that we think could help for a short amount of time. And they made those as recommended conditions of approval. We brought those to WINCO's attention. It came up to the Planning Commission here, and WINCO said that they were willing to make those improvements, so those are now included as a condition of approval. Right now, I'm going to talk about what those improvements are. So we're looking right now, this is evergreen as it aligns with, this is the Dutch Brothers, this is the... Baker Brothers, Baker Sons Tow Company on the west side. Evergreen coming into 214. Right now there's a yield side when you come southbound and it's a stop sign coming out north here as you're coming out by this wonderful Dutch Brother entrance. And I've gotten a ticket at this stop sign so I don't mind telling you. I went through this before. I thought the stop was back here and I went through the second half. I deserved it. It is confusing. There is. ODOT's recommendation, which is now included as a condition, is that these actually be signaled when you come off to make a right hand turn. And that would give them an opportunity to stop and queue these people up on this side. That not only helps alleviate some of the traffic coming out on both sides of this road, But any time ODOT can signalize and monitor this traffic and regulate it, it lets them open the doors and queue and allow cars to queue through in all the different directions. They've got complicated modeling that will allow things to work a lot better because they get backed up at both those areas. But mostly, I think it's going to be a safety improvement as much as anything else to make it a lot safer for people to cross there as opposed to the yield and the stop sign. So those are included now as conditions of approval for the applicant to work through ODOT to go through that. I want to take a second to talk about something that's more complicated, which is our interchange management overlay. I know you're all very familiar with it. I went through it last year. We made a lot of amendments to it. This is a special district that we have in the city which we created in cooperation in conjunction with ODOT in order to make sure that all of the traffic trips that are happening around the interchange are preserved for certain uses and not sucked up by other uses, say other commercial uses or other residential uses or sucked up by one particular user. Because there was a lot of money and investment put into the interchange, we and ODA agreed to some conditions out there. Some of those conditions were that we allocated and put a trip estimate for how many trips would come off each of these sites. So we said all these sites you see in here with these letters, this L, K, this one that's not, you can't really see labeled, but it's part of K, I out here in the corner, these are all designated as commercial sites. The IMA recognizes them and requires them to be developed as commercial properties, that's what they were anticipated to be, so that those commercial trips could get allocated into this interchange area. On the other side, say that great big A you see out here, doesn't stand for Amazon, it just happens to be Amazon when they walked in the door. And to the south, these were designated and these are to be reserved for industrial areas, industrial sites. The number and the trips that are put on it were done by estimates. They said essentially industrial sites get, I think it's 11 trips per acre and commercial I think they just said we're gonna assign 33 trips per acre. I think those are the numbers but it doesn't really matter. I'll show you why it doesn't matter because we have an actual number that we assign for each. It's important to note that part of being in this area is when any developer comes in to develop these properties, not only do they pay our transportation system charge, as well as all other SDC's, transportation system charges, they also pay an additional fee to the city. In this case, it's between one and a half and probably two million dollars will be paid from WinCo, and that helps reimburse the city for the cost that we put out to make the improvements, acquire right away, et cetera, for the interchange. It's sort of a reimbursement district. So we'll be collecting that money back when WINGDO comes in and pays their SDC. That's an estimate as to what it would be. But this is important because this is one of the issues that was raised on appeal, and I'm going to spend an extra minute on it. Again, I talked about how these trip allocations are assigned out here. And if you look at this table at the bottom, you're going to see this sub-area K, which is where the wing-toe property is. They assigned within there, these two lots, this number which is 429, if you add these two numbers together. So they were allocated 429 trips within these two parcels. Not within all of K. All of K is a lot more and they can borrow and share them around. In fact, you can borrow and share them from other sites as well. But one of the things that the IMA requires is that if you're going to borrow some of these trips around and move them off these parcels, if you're going to exceed that parcel number, and in this case these numbers add up to 429 and they're 511, you need to actually create a finding and review the comprehensive plan. And your job was the planning commission's job, excuse me, job was to make sure that if you're gonna borrow and exceed that cap, that that development contributes, substantially contributes, I think it all reads to the economic objectives in our comprehensive plan. And there's a lot of findings there that you're going to find about it that specifically talk about that. That's what they had to do. That's one of the requirements. If you're curious, there's an overall cap. If you're remembering, we did this last year. There's still an overall cap as to how many trips we allow out there. That number is 6,028 trips. Right now, we're at 1,798. So we're a long way from reaching anywhere near that IMA cap. We feel very comfortable we won't get there. for a long, long time, if we get there at all. The other element is it requires an addition or review from ODA. One thing that's important is because they're in the IMA, they have to do some extra things. We call these TDMs. One of the requirements and the things that the city agreed to is every property in there, when they develop, they also have to try to do everything they can to try to mitigate trips on the road, vehicular trips. And they do that by doing things like creating a TDM plan. This should look familiar. We've done this for Amazon and one other developer out here. So they have to assign a TDM manager. One of the things they had to come up with was actually build this bus shelter to try to encourage more transit trips. And you're going to see some additional off-site pedestrian improvements that they're putting in to try to encourage more people to walk here as opposed to drive here. That on-site manager will have a list of sort of exact performance metrics they have to hit to try to show how they're getting people to either take the bus. They're going to notify them about how to get there. They can offer bus passes. We have a short list of things that they'll have to do. They have to give us that report every year. So the proposal is right at this intersection. We're looking, that's, this is not the greatest area, I apologize. So I'm looking at, this is Evergreen, I'm looking sort of southwest in that direction. You see the apartments to the south of the Winco property. This is Evergreen Road, and this is, I'm standing right sort of on the center of Oxford. So this is where Oxford intersects with Evergreen Road. We have some new ADA improvements we put in here. Right here, this is how you cross. Still a little dangerous. It's a little tricky and hairy crossing Evergreen Road. So one of the requirements that we have as a condition of approval, which is tied to their transportation demand management plan, was to put in one of these flashing beacons, these rectangular flashing beacons where you press the signal, there will be a median place where you can stop in the middle, cross again so you can get across, and it'll flash for people to stop when you want to cross them. We've installed a few of them. This is an example of what one looks like here. This is what the applicant will be putting, Winko would be installing, subject to the public work standards, of course. So to have a crossing, this would be essentially what it would look like as it crosses Evergreen. And one of the reasons we thought this was the best spot for it, I think this kind of ties into some of the things we've been doing around town. What you're looking at here is this is the interchange of, this is where Harvard, and this is this, quote, enhanced pedestrian crossing that we installed at Harvard and Oxford. about a year ago. I think we finished that. And if you look way ahead, you can see that was the picture I showed you before, and those are the apartments at the end of Oxford if you're looking west. This really ties in nicely. So if you're walking from all those apartments, and if you're trying to get to the Winco and you're in either this community or you're out at Smith, this gives you a way to cross, and it gives you yet another sort of covered and protected crossing so that you can get all the way across. And then this beacon will be at the end of it so that you can get to the Winco site. and onward to the Walmart if you wanted to shop there. That's one of the reasons we chose that location. I'm going to cover the variances. I'll do them pretty quickly. The Planning Commission recommended approval of all of them. The first had to do with the electronic vehicle spaces. We have a requirement that 5% of your EV spaces that you have to put on site be level two charging, and we require signing, marking, et cetera. The applicant was only proposing eight, and they're proposed with this higher level three supercharger equipment that comes from Tesla. Essentially, Tesla wrote a letter that said, we don't really need that many based on that use and the fact that they charge, I don't know how much times faster, five times, 20 times faster. They say that they can charge in like 15, between 15 and 30 minutes. They can turn over a lot faster. They don't need people to sit as long. They were comfortable and they're the ones who essentially make some of the money off of it. So to be wired to provide more if they need it, but they don't think that it's necessary and it would be overkill. So staff was supportive of that. They gave us that letter when they came in. One thing to think about is when we go back in and modify our code, I think we might do some tweaks to that EV language. It was new. We brought it in. We've had a lot of requests for it. The way it reads now is all non-residential have to provide the 5% requirement. When, in fact, I think office may have a higher requirement than, say, a retail and a fast turnover place. I don't know how many people come in and quickly charge things up if they're going to, say, the florist. But I think a lot more people would at the office. They know they're going to be there all day. Something to think about. We are supportive of it. The Planning Commission approved it. They have a variance for their wall signage only on the west side, which is the side of the French I-5. This is their main frontage. 300 square feet is permitted along that. We consider that wall signage like the face that you can have on this entire frontage. They have other frontages that gets wall signage, has separate wall signage requirements. Oh, pardon me. They want an increase of 153 square feet. Thank you, Fernando. My math was wrong yet again. It's correct in the report, it's wrong in my presentation. Staff in our recommendation didn't recommend approval of this. We thought that they were, it was adequate to just meet the smaller, the regulated amount under our code. The applicant presented information at the planning commission. And what they did was based at the planning commissioner said, what we really like to see is what would it look like if you met the code? How would this face look different? They did that. The planning commission was comfortable with it and said, that's what we expect it to be. It's a very subtle difference. It's not a lot because these are actually, this is a pretty, these are pretty big signs. that you see on there. So it was pretty minimal based on the fact that the idea behind this was they wanted some frontage from folks on I-5 to be able to see it. And they're set back pretty far as well from Stacy. The Planning Commission felt that there were no adverse impacts from having the larger sign. And it was justified just on this frontage. The third variance I did with the parking lot light pole heights. Probably seen this before. We've approved a few of these. Staff recommended approval of it. The Planning Commission agreed. Essentially our code requires 14 and a half feet for the maximum height for your parking lot lighting that you can have in your parking lot. The applicant said if you let us go 10 feet higher in our parking lot it lets us put in less light poles and they thought they can provide the same amount of coverage. Be aware it wouldn't result in any more light spillage off-site. We still have the same requirements that it has to be baffled. We have a photometric study showing that all the light poles proposed don't have any spillage of light off-site and we'll do that review again at the time of building permit. I do that again when it walks in the door. But we did have put a condition on it that where you're closer to the residential areas on the south and the west side, that those poles be lower in that parking area. So those will still have to meet the code. And in the front of the building, essentially along I-5 in the front, those could be higher. That's a condition of approval. Staff recommended it. The Planning Commission agreed with it. That that might maybe get any potential adverse impacts. And it will result in less poles. The last condition that kind of came up the Planning Commission I think is important has to do with this came from I received a call from the manager over at the Cascade Meadows to the south the property manager didn't have any major issues with it but said one thing that was a problem was this problem a lot of shopping carts from say the Walmart come down there and they get lost and they get thrown in ditches and And they build up down there, and it's hard to bring them back in. Brought it up to Winco. Winco said, actually, we have a good solution for that. So this is now a condition of approval. It's essentially a shopping cart locking mechanism. I think of it as sort of the geofence thing. So once it goes beyond a certain, I don't know exactly if they can explain how it works, exactly once you go beyond, I think it's a certain trip wire off the lot, it would lock up the shopping cart. So you couldn't push any further, and it stops the wheels from turning. Not that someone could lift it and drag it, but that's That's just overall theft in any case. So we thought that was a pretty good, and we think that'll do a good job of minimizing, if not ending and stopping shopping carts, these shopping carts from getting dragged off site. Quick summary of the appeal application we received. It's in your package. It came in on May 11th from POVA, that group, and the applicant's responses, the applicant being WinCo, who walked in the door, and they can speak to more of this if you have some questions of them on June 5th. I have them in sort of yellow and blue. Just to highlight, the appeal raises some procedural issues they thought occurred, and they didn't like the findings, particularly related to the IMA, the interchange management area. I think they didn't agree with the Planning Commission and staff's findings related to stating that there wasn't enough justification to exceed that cap and that they didn't find that there were enough policies and objectives in that comprehensive plan justifying it. In blue is the responses that, again, staff concurs with. First of all, any procedural issues that happened at the Planning Commission level in terms of evidence that came into the record, the open record period, are addressed and can be resolved right here because we're having a de novo hearing, which is important and why we had to do all this again. And one of the good things about having these de novo hearings is everybody can come in and if there was a procedural error, they can raise it now and it can be rectified. The second part is there are contradictory objectives in the comp plan, and there's a good reason for that. Some talk about, right, making sure residential areas, any adverse commercial and industrial offsite impacts don't adversely impact residential areas. It's just a broad policy. There's a lot of that in the code. We want to see projects that provide as much open space and green space as possible. And that's implemented through your zoning code. And that's how it works. Those are not code criteria. They never are. They're not to be applied as code criteria. But we can and should go back and look at some of those objectives to see if it's consistent. Those are outlined in the letter from the applicant's attorney. They're outlined in staff's findings that we initially proposed. The very simple answer, and I kind of make it super simple, The purpose statement for the commercial zone, when you open up the commercial land use component of our comprehensive plan, what are the objectives and policies of our commercial areas? It says this area identifies these properties on the east side of Stacy Allison, west of Evergreen, should be developed as large commercial retail nodes. And that's why they're identified that way in the IMA. And that's exactly what the grocery store is. That's very comfortable that that's consistent with all those requirements. In terms of the traffic impact analysis, this is the other major piece that came from summarizing POVA's appeal. They submitted a separate letter from their traffic engineer. And they were looking for additional analysis, particularly I think oddly, they asked for additional analysis of the project that we're installing out on Evergreen to show if you put in those improvements, what are the impacts and how is it going to impact the future level of service? Since we're building, we felt comfortable it was going to satisfy them. But that's all right. There were also some queuing requirements they were looking for. They disagreed with the opening year that was shown in the application. And they wanted to know if an analysis was going to be done on that flashing beacon. RRFP is rectangular, rapid rectangular flashing beacon, or the other way around. And they disagreed with some of the overall assumptions. To point it out, so just to cover all the bases, although it wasn't required by the applicant, what they've done is supplemented the record, and they've actually done that analysis of those evergreen projects and shown, well, what's it going to look like when you put those lights in and those roundabouts in there that you're proposing, with the Winko project included. And it shows that those intersections go from F, F and F, to C, C, and A, which is the higher ones. I get that correct? um which we sort of suspected now it's documented in the record um and the opening year was modified for their request they moved it out the extra year and it didn't impact any of the levels of service In terms of explaining the assumptions, they did the same thing. Our traffic engineer still concurs and agrees with the analysis. They think those are best practices that traffic engineers always utilize. There's a lot of technical items in there. I think there are honestly areas of disagreement where someone says you should be doing a Q analysis of this. Not required, but you might want to do it anyway. We're comfortable with it. If ODOT wasn't comfortable with it, they would have asked for them as well. So we're comfortable that staff, ODOT, the Public Works Department, and we have a separate letter from Winko's engineer stating the same thing. That we're comfortable with all the findings and the assumptions that have been supplemented. I won't read through all these, but staff's recommendation is to affirm the PC's decision, which would be an approval of the application, of the week of application. The basic reason is the first bullet. It conforms with all the WDO standards that we have. It's not much more complicated than that. We have an approval from ODOT as well. And they're offering even some additional voluntary requirements that go above the code. So staff's recommendation is you direct staff to prepare a final decision if you agree with any additional findings that might be raised tonight. Because we did receive some additional testimony this evening. And I think those were handed out. That's a letter from, a letter we just addressed June 8th. It's pretty short. We walked through these. This is additional emails that we received today and maybe over the weekend. Wanted to make sure we got them to you, got them in the record. A couple of pro, a couple of con, I think is the way they read. And again, I have the applicants here, they have a robust team here to answer questions. They have architects, engineers, civil engineers, traffic engineer, as well as a lot of people from Winco corporate. You can answer operational type questions. I'm sorry that was a bit long, but I wanted to make sure we covered everything in there, because this is De Novo and a lot of people are interested in it. Thank you.

So before we move on, does the council have any questions of staff at this moment? I have one. The Planning Commission got into the traffic impact analysis in depth on the and all of that was been approved?

They did. Everything was approved by the Planning Commission. They went through anything. They had their final effect. We took a little extra time to go through the final decision that we prepared to cover all the procedural issues, as well as everything that was raised. So the original letter that came in from who's now the appellant, who's someone opposing the project at the time, the clover group, they included a traffic engineering memo in opposition at that time. and winco submitted their engineer submitted another memo similar to what you have here the sort of these dueling memos so that came in was reviewed by the planning commission and just by the way just so that you know i have a list of sort of people who want to speak after the applicant speaks and i have on top i'm putting the appellant on here so i think they should probably speak first okay after right

I just have a procedural question. So this hearing is to approve the work of the Planning Commission, correct? And I keep hearing the award there's an appeal. Is that just testimony that will be heard opposing Do you understand why I'm a little confused? Because I keep hearing the word appeal.

Yeah, so an individual or representing a group from the planning commission that had standing, who appeared at the planning commission hearing, filed an official appeal of the planning commission decision, which means they fill out an application as an appellant and they pay the city a fee so that we can have this de novo hearing this evening. And you will hear from the appellant, I believe, after the applicant's presentation.

Thank you. Okay. I will invite the applicant.

All the mics are red, so you don't need to press any buttons for the public.

All right.

Good evening, Mayor, City Council members. My name is Adam Leschewski. I'm the warehouse manager at the warehouse of Woodburn, Winco Woodburn Distribution Center on 400 South Woodland Avenue. I'm sure you guys all know Winco well. We opened that distribution center in 1998. Winco is known for low prices and employee ownership. We employ approximately 600 employees and another 50 to 60 third-party vendors and providers of our distribution center. We regularly receive requests for a store in Woodburn. Many come from our employees who live in Woodburn. Based on these requests, our company has been wanting to put a store in Woodburn for several years now. It would be a great compliment to our distribution center and well received by our employees. We will and continue to be good citizens at Woodburn. An employee of the store will become an owner of our company. We hope you approve our application favorably and thank you for your time.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

Evening Mayor and City Council members. My name is Chris Kirk. I'm the store manager of the Winco Foods off Lancaster and Salem, 1240 Lancaster Drive, Southeast. Here to give you a brief review of Winco as an employer. We pay competitive wages, have an excellent benefits package with comprehensive health care benefits and very low prices, as I'm sure you guys are aware. We are an employee stock ownership plan or an ESOP. Every employee is an owner and current and former employees are owners of Winco. Employees of the store in Woodburn would also have the opportunity to become owners of the company as well. Winco has a strong commitment to on the job training and employee development. Their success is ours. We believe in promoting within. I myself was hired as a pizza department clerk and now manage one of the busiest stores in Oregon. We have many training programs to help our employees advance in their careers with our company. Over, I think, probably 5,000 or 6,000 different training programs for their own development. We write our schedules three weeks in advance so employees have the ability to make plans and spend time with their families. Anyone wanting 40 hours a week can most certainly get those 40 hours a week. We have seven different departments within our operating stores that operate on the daytime. One works overnight. Finally, we anticipate the store in Woodburn would employ about another 130 positions within the city of Woodburn. So thank you for your time. I hope you review our application favorably. Thank you.

Is this store going to withdraw any business from your store? Most likely. That's okay? That's okay, yes.

Any other questions?

Anyone on the council have questions? Thank you. Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor and council members. My name is Byron Hills. I'm the project architect for this WinCo store. I've been doing work for WinCo for the better part of 20 years now. And I can say that we've truly appreciated and enjoyed working with Chris and Fernando. They've been great to work with. And I'm just going to repeat a few things that Chris has already mentioned. But we spent considerable time on this project being aware that it's adjacent and across from residential properties. We spent considerable time trying to make sure that we buffered between that commercial use and the residential uses as much as we could. So the first thing we did was how we positioned the building, facing it away from the residences, keeping the parking lot away from the residences as much as we could. And then facing the loading dock also away from the residences. And that will keep the truck traffic and any noise from that buffered from those residential uses as much as possible. Typically, we would have that truck dock on the back of the building parallel with the rear wall. So it's not preferred to have it where we've got it. But WinCo was OK doing that just to make sure that we're not We're not disturbing those adjacent residential properties.

Noise-wise, you're talking about?

Noise-wise, correct. Yep. And traffic. I think Chris mentioned that the truck traffic will be coming in from Stacy Allison and not Evergreen. And so we've configured that parking lot and that truck dock to allow for that. Okay. The landscaping on the, I guess what would be the east side, that 40 feet roughly that Chris was talking about, that was a big, you know, we pushed the store forward enough to get that landscaping buffer and allow for layers of landscaping in there. So the idea is that it's not just one row of trees, but there's multiple rows and they're offset from each other. so that as they grow they're really going to fill in and provide a really nice year-round screen for the residences across the street so there's not a tree on the property now correct roughly how many are you looking at putting in boy i'd have to count i think it's in the hundreds though yeah once we get the street trees and the on-site trees yeah and you're looking at that

double landscaping plan to keep some of the light out from neighbors at night?

It's view, it's light, noise, you know, just action or traffic, just a general screening. But yeah, noise and light would probably be the two big ones, yeah.

Is there a minimum height that you're talking about?

A minimum height? We'll meet whatever the code requirement is. But yeah, it'll be either a caliper size or a gallon size or a height size. But yeah, we'll certainly meet that.

Yeah, they go in at what we call the large tree size. And it's done a somewhere two-inch caliper, somewhere planted. Yeah, 10 foot high.

Yeah, I was going to say two-inch caliper is usually 10 or 11 foot tall tree.

Yeah.

And then lastly, Chris already touched on this as well, the lighting. We did make sure we kept all of the light poles in that area adjacent to the residences, the Cascade Meadow apartments down at the shorter height. And all of those light fixtures along the property line will be shielded to prevent light pollution beyond the property line. That's all the way around all four sides of the property. So, and then I could explain that cart containment system if you'd like. So what it is, is it's a buried wire that will go around the perimeter of the property. We'll keep it from even going behind the store. But each cart has a locking wheel on it, and when that cart gets close to that wire, that wheel locks up. And I've tried to push those carts after the wheels are locked up, and you can't push them. So a store employee will have to come out with a little device and actually unlock that wheel, and that'll allow it to be pushed back in. So they really do a really good job of keeping the carts on property. That's really all I had. Does anybody have any questions? Any other questions?

I have a quick question. I don't know if it was discussed in the planning part of it, but Chris, you touched on the facade of the south side and east side of the store just rather plain. Was there any discussion in creating a prettier facade for those two sides?

You know, we did what we needed to do to meet the code. As the two WNCO employees have mentioned, they really pride themselves on low prices. And part of the way they do that is to keep their buildings cost effective. So those walls will be a precast concrete sandwich panel, which means they're concrete with insulation in between them. It's required for energy code, but they're actually also quite a nice looking. They're textured on the exterior side. They'll get painted. There is a little bit of height variance there, and we will break it up with some paint. But really trying to keep it efficient, cost-effective, and still meet the code. We will be screening all of the mechanical equipment on the roof. with some metal screening panels that'll tie into the metal at the front of the building. So I think overall it would be a nice looking building. Thank you. And a lot of landscaping. So yeah, you know, five years after construction, you wouldn't see a lot of that, of that rear wall especially, where they start getting covered, screened.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Byron, how do you feel about the traffic impact it's going to have on our community?

You know, I'm not an expert on that.

We do have... Is there anyone else out here on your site that can address that?

We do have...

I see some nods, so okay. I'll go with that.

Yeah, they can come up and answer any questions you guys have. Okay. Any other questions for me?

more questions for the architect okay okay thank you very much so there was one uh concerned resident that had suggested some sort of wall along evergreen as an additional variant you could just kind of address what your proposal is with the layers of trees and the setbacks vis-a-vis the wall set concept that i think was suggested

Yeah, I just feel like the landscaping is going to be much more aesthetically pleasing, to be honest. Those walls, you know, it'd be a CMU wall. You saw the photo of the existing wall. The paint starts to peel. So, you know, Winco does a great job maintaining, but I just think you can't beat the green space and the landscaping for screening, personally.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

Hello. Hi. I'm Ryan Shea. I am a professional transportation planner, and I prepared all the traffic analysis for WinCo, and fire away.

OK. How's your story going to impact our community?

Well, certainly it'll add trips to the road. That's kind of the job I have. Every time we go into a community and we're looking at a new project, we try to figure out what are those trips going to look like, where are they going to go, and what sort of increase in congestion might we anticipate. We worked really closely with both city staff and ODOT staff. As Chris mentioned, we initially went through a scoping process where we provided some initial calculations for how many trips we thought the Winco Foods would add. then we worked with their staff to identify specifically where we needed to study and how we would achieve future forecasts to then assess that impact with the opening year condition. Part of that, this is a relatively There's a relatively unbuilt area down here, but there's a lot of plans. And so the city gave us a significant amount of approved projects in the immediate area that we then added on to the volumes that are out on the roads today. So when we look at what's going to be the operating condition with the WNCO, we're considering all of the approved projects in the area that have already come through. And whether they're being built tomorrow or soon, they're all in our analysis volume. And then we add ourselves on top as kind of the last man in. and when we looked at the study area which i think as chris mentioned was about a dozen intersections both between city and odot facilities we found only those three locations on evergreen road that were deficient and if they're not deficient right now they're certainly deficient with all those pipeline projects they've been identified and we read through some of those previous studies this these are not new problems the city's well advanced in their plans for that. And as Chris also mentioned, we've provided supplementary analysis that just validates that those designs that the city's identified are more than adequate for not even just WinCo, I mean CC and A. There's a lot of remaining capacity at those locations after the WinCo Foods is built. And then along the ODOT facility, they have very different standards and are pretty demanding with their documentation and requirements, and they're thorough. We worked with them on their approval conditions. We did a 20-year forecast for them as per their guidelines. We didn't show a deficiency in our opening year. We show some issues in the 20-year forecast. That's really more of an informational analysis. And as Chris mentioned, they identified some helpful improvements that weren't straight requirements that Winco's decided to go ahead and implement there at Evergreen and the highway to help kind of promote a safer environment once we open. So I don't know if that's a long-winded answer. It helps.

Okay. Any other questions for the traffic guy? Okay, Ryan, thank you.

Yeah, no problem.

Is there anyone else from WinCo that wants to come up and say anything? I had a couple questions. It's probably going back to Chris that talked earlier. Can you come back up? One thing I didn't ask, and I think probably the best one, how many jobs are we looking at that will fill this store?

We anticipate an additional 130 jobs.

And that's full-time for the most part?

We have a minimum of 40% of total store employees at full-time status. They generally work 32 hours or more as a full-time status employee. But like I mentioned earlier, we have seven different departments on days. The unique thing about WinCo is once you're an employee of WinCo, whether that's a cashier or in the meat department, if you're looking for extra or additional hours, you can work anywhere in the store as long as it fits your availability.

And shifts are, it is 24-hour operation, seven days?

Yes, sir.

Holidays?

The only holiday we're closed is Christmas Day. We close early on Christmas Eve and Thanksgiving, though, so people can spend time with their families.

Okay. Thank you very much for coming. You're welcome. Thank you. Okay. Next up, I have a number of people that are looking for proponents, those of you that are in favor of the application. And I have quite a few here. I'll call you out by name.

I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor, could we go slightly out of order just because we have an appellant here? I think maybe the appellant should probably speak first before the other folks, if that's acceptable.

We can change that.

It's signed Mulkey.

Andrew Mulkey? Welcome.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor and members of the City Council.

My name is Andrew Mulkey and I'm here on behalf of Protect Our Valley Alliance. I'd like to get through a couple of preliminary, excuse me, preliminary matters first. I guess I would like the record to be held open just because the applicant did submit additional traffic analysis just two working days ago. So I'd like a chance for my traffic engineer to take a look at that and be able to respond. And I guess I would like to propose something a little out of the ordinary I think for these land use proceedings is I would be fine with holding the record open for written testimony, but if possible to kind of have sort of a continuance so that when you do come back and deliberate that I would be able to get up and make argument based on what was in the record and then also have the applicant have the opportunity for final argument as well, which I believe is pretty standard for the applicant to get the last word.

Mr. Mulcahy, this has been going on for several months already. If you have an argument to make, I would say make it tonight.

Yeah, and so I guess my point to that is, our point has been that the applicant has failed to include certain analysis in its traffic analysis, and this has underestimated the impacts of its proposed operation. And so this is something that the applicant should have been doing all along and just hasn't done. They finally provided some additional analysis only two working days ago, I think on Friday. So I simply haven't had a chance to digest all of that. I haven't been able to work with my traffic engineer to assess that and provide a response to that. And so I think if I'm not able to respond to that, my concern is that I'm not actually being afforded a full and fair hearing. Because if the applicant is providing additional analysis that it's supposed to provide, impacts on various intersections and things like that. To be fair, I need a chance to be able to look at that with my traffic engineer and respond. And two working days just simply wasn't enough time to do that.

No, you still, there's always an opportunity to appeal to Lou now.

Yes, but I will say that AWUBA is an on-the-record appeal and so there is not the opportunity to provide any additional analysis and things like that. So, you know, and I guess from my perspective, I do a lot of land use proceedings and I think probably One of the more frustrating things from a city government or county government perspective is to have their decision appealed and then come back to them on a technical ground. Let's move on.

We will discuss this later today before we take a vote. OK. So give us the best argument you have now.

Yeah. And at the very least, I would ask for the typical 777 open record period, response period, and final rebuttal period. So I want to say that this is The planner, Mr. Kerr, talked about how this is an outright permitted use, and I agree with that. However, because they are in the interchange management area, the IMA area, and they are in exceeding the trip allowance for their area, there are additional discretionary criteria. So I think there is certainly plenty of room if the council is willing to deny this application for failing to meet the discretionary criteria, which is simply that this, the applicant has to show that this will contribute substantially to the economic objectives that are described in the comprehensive plan. And I do not believe they have met that requirement. And first of all, I want to point out that this is In the IMA area there is a mix of commercial and industrial development and so the impact that this commercial use could have on future industrial development I think is very significant. And so I want to point out just for you that some of the economic objectives in the comprehensive plan including E-1.9, E-1.8, and then F-2, those look at generating jobs that could upgrade skills for the community and also protecting industrial uses from traffic that will interfere with normal industrial practices. And finally, enhancing the quality of the city workforce. And I do not believe that the applicant has met those objectives, much less demonstrated that it substantially exceeds those objectives or contributes substantial, excuse me, to those economic objectives. Finally, as I guess we've discussed a little bit, the applicant, as required by the development code, that's 3.04.05, the applicant is required to evaluate the transportation impacts of the development proposal. And in this degree, again, I guess we can disagree, but there are a number of impacts that the applicant has failed to address. The way in which the applicant has done its analysis, as you heard from your planner, that a lot of these intersections are just barely passing. And so one of the things that the applicant has done is they've understated the amount of pass-by trips and not done that analysis correctly. And the result of that is that it understates the impacts that this proposed store would have. And so if they're just barely passing, and their analysis shows that they're just barely passing, by making these sorts of undercounts or failure to adequately account for pass-by trips, that's something that could actually push them over the edge into not passing. And so, again, 3.04.05 talks about there's the need to have to address those impacts and then mitigate them. And so that's the concern there, is that their analysis has undercounted and understated much of the impacts that will occur. And by failing to address that, they're actually going to push a lot of these intersections over to failing. So that's part of what I would like the opportunity to provide a little bit more information with their more recent analysis that's been provided. And really, that is all I have. I think you have seen additional testimony provided by a local union that talks about how despite what the applicant has said about the number of jobs and the number of full-time jobs, Again, it's 40%, but that unpredictable scheduling is a big factor in part of the operations and experience of folks working at WinCo. And I know personally that that can be, just from other jobs that I've had, that that can be a real, real burden there. And so I think that when you're looking at a store that's coming in, that's gonna be in a commercial area, yes, but that is going to far exceed the traffic allowed in that commercial area. And that will have downstream impacts on other industrial uses in the future. And being able to successfully implement those industrial uses, I think having the traffic capacity to implement those future industrial uses. is a big deal. And so simply not demonstrating that they will contribute substantially to the economic objectives of the comprehensive plan is one criteria or one criterion that you can use to deny this application. And I believe you should do so for those reasons. So unless you have any questions.

Does the council have any questions?

And I believe I'm happy to come out later if you want to discuss holding the record open or if the applicant has an opinion on that. But with that, I'll leave it there.

I have one question. You represent an alliance. Yeah. I'm not familiar with them. I've never heard of them before. Are they a state association? Can you tell me about them?

No, they're a local organization made up of presidents.

How many members are we talking about?

A number, I haven't, the full list, I can't remember, but I think there's a little bit over 10 folks, yeah.

Okay.

Are you saying 10 folks here in town, in Woodburn, or, because I looked you up on Facebook.

That's my understanding, yes.

And there's a lot of people from Sherwood and outside of this town. And as the mayor said, this is the first time I've heard of you. And I'm very much into protecting our green spaces in town. But I They're suggesting that we kept this undercover. We've been talking about WinCo for quite a long time. And to suggest that we kept it quiet, that people couldn't come into the city council or come to the city and discuss their concerns about it is a little bit offensive. Your concerns are valid, but this is, we don't want more industrial. We want services and businesses that will serve the community as a whole. You put industrial into these commercial spaces. I can't shop them. I can't buy things from them. So it fails me as a citizen, lifelong citizens of Woodburn. I need a place to go grocery shopping. I need a place to... have my family participate in and be able to go shopping. And to put industrial in or suggest that we aren't functioning as a city by putting a store such as this in is very confusing to me.

Well, thank you for that question. And I think that the issue here is not that there's commercial versus industrial. Obviously, this parcel is zoned commercial, and it should be for commercial. Yes, and what my concern is, and what my client's concern is, is that by allowing a commercial use in this space that exceeds the amount of peak trips allowed or kind of allotted to this space, that you're going to be interfering with other industrial uses and other commercial uses too in the IMA area. And so I think that that is concerning and that in order to exceed that, again, the criteria is that the commercial use or the industrial use that exceeds that needs to show that it contributes substantially to the economic objectives that are stated in the comprehensive plan. And I don't believe that the applicant has met its burden in that respect. So it's not that this area shouldn't be for commercial use. I think it's the scale that's coming in.

And what's your suggestion to alleviate your concerns?

Well, in this case, I think it's the applicant's burden to show that it meets the criteria. And if it can't meet the criteria, then it would be a denial. So that's, again, I'm not... I think if the applicant could meet the peak trip allocation there, then it wouldn't need to show that it contributes substantially to the economic objectives. But that's not what's been proposed.

Any other questions from Ms. Mulkey? Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, I will now hear from proponents. We will go back and if the applicant has any rebuttal to what we just heard, we'll address that later. So starting in this order, I have Elena Meshaka, lives on Hardcastle. Bob Burden.

Good evening. Good evening.

I'd just like to say that I've shopped at WinCo for about 40 years, different places. They've always come through for every community I've been around, whether it be Gresham, whether it be down in Lancaster area, wherever. They've always come through. They've followed through with whatever they said. I'm a big proponent on their cart stopping. I saw it work in Gresham 30 years ago. I always laugh every time it happens because it's always fun to see somebody trying to walk away with a cart and all of a sudden it stops. It's a little entertainment for me, I guess. I'm easy. As Frank knows, I'm easy. So we have that. Our family, everyone goes to, our whole neighborhood wants the Winco. I live in the estates. Everybody wants it. Everybody talks about it. It's a big, positive, affirmative thing for Woodburn. That's what I got.

Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you. So the other eight have all said that they're in favor. None of them said that they request to speak. Is there anyone out there that would like to speak on behalf of the applicant? No. I have one opponent against it also did not wish to speak. But also these will be marked as part of the record. So I will turn it back to the applicant to see if there's any rebuttal. Anyone on what Ms. Mulkey said?

Hi.

Good evening.

I'm Cosette Tran-Cafe with the law firm of Miller Nash. I'm land use counselor for WinCo. I thought I would just respond to the procedural issues raised by Mr. Mulkey. Excuse me, I'm getting over a cold. The ORS does have baseline procedural requirements that apply to this procedure or to this process, both at the Planning Commission and here at Council. The basic outline is you have the initial evidentiary hearing. if someone requests before the close of that evidentiary hearing to either hold the record open or continue the hearing, then that initial body is required to do that. And that's the 777 rule he was referring to, like seven days to submit additional evidence, seven days to rebut that evidence, and then seven days for final argument. by the applicant. There is also the potential. So after additional evidence and rebuttal evidence, if someone requests after that rebuttal period to respond to the rebuttal evidence, there's also a statutory requirement to allow them to do that. So the process that the planning commission did not strictly follow that process. But now that we are here, we have hit all of those milestones. So there's been the initial evidentiary process, an additional evidentiary period, a rebuttal period, and now this de novo hearing, which is both the rebuttal period and the response to the rebuttal evidence, which sort of leaves us satisfying the ORS and also allows you to cut off the process without, you know, letting it extend on forever.

Right. I agree. Any questions? Okay. Thank you. I'm just going to give you another shot.

I just wanted to thank you, Mr. Mayor. I wanted to make sure I hand it out, the items that came in over the counter. These just came in, and I just wanted to recognize. So I wanted to recognize testimony, make sure they got into the record and that you received. This is a memo dated today. These are some emails that we received. You received this. It was sitting in front of you when you sat down. I just wanted to officially put those on the record. And then we just received a letter from Mr. Milton. I wanted to put that in front of you as well. Okay, I'll read these if you don't mind. In case you were watching, I want to make sure they got their emails in. Some came in the weekend, some came today. We have one from Amy Walker. I have Kevin Dean, Matt Rickard, Mackenzie Pratt, and Liliana Lozavan. Those are the emails you already had. You received those plus the one I just added. I just want to make sure they were in the record.

And then, Mr. Mayor, before making a decision to close the hearing, I am happy to answer any questions related to the procedural aspects. But I do concur with the applicant's attorney statements during rebuttal related to the initial evidentiary hearing is the one that was at the Planning Commission. And that is the one that would otherwise be required to be left open for that seven, seven and seven day period of time for additional evidence and response and rebuttal. We are past that point. Again, it is always council's discretion to, again, leave the record open, but the statute does not require that and neither does our code.

Thank you. Okay. I am going to close the public hearing. and opened up for discussion from the Council. Anyone care to begin?

Councilor Rowe.

So in the interest of full disclosure, I've actually been to a WinCo store one time in my life, the one on South Commercial. Didn't buy anything there, but I wanted to experience it. And so I've seen it. have to say, and this comes up in a variety of contexts before this council, that we're a growing city, and with growth comes pain sometimes, growing pains. And I think there's some evidence of that here with respect to this proposal. There are going to be some people that perhaps will be unhappy You know, that said, it seems to me that the applicant has met the applicable criteria. It's a zoned use. I think the applicant's gone beyond the requirements of our code and the law to create buffers and to provide amenities to the community and to make this a viable concern and one that I think a lot of the residents of Woodburn will benefit from. When Walmart first came here, I had some concerns about how that might affect other businesses. It seems that it has become a good part of our community and that other businesses have not been particularly adversely affected by it. And I think the same is true with WinCo and after all in our economy we rely on competition to provide the best services at the best prices. I think on balance that I would favor this proposal.

Thank you. Any other discussion?

excuse me, I agree wholeheartedly with Councilor Hill. And, you know, just reading through all of the information that was provided from the Planning Commission, all through Chris Kerr and his employees, I agree that any time there was a question, they answered it. They're concerned about our community. I was impressed that they're going to maybe update by new painting or whatever of a fence that's already there that they thought about. the destruction of that fancy building, a new one, and what that would do to the trees, all of it. I mean, I really think they've put their best foot forward. And I agree, a lot of people in our community are in favor. And so am I.

Thank you. Anyone else? No? Yeah, the only thing I would add is I think the Planning Commission has done due diligence and done a good job looking at it. I think the variances that have been allowed are certainly fair and I agree with those. Is there any interest in discussion on keeping this open or are we ready for a vote?

I believe we're ready for the vote. I'm satisfied with the information from our attorney and the client that we're ready for a vote. I'm ready to vote today from what I've heard and from what I've studied.

Okay, then I'd like a roll call vote in favor of the application.

Mr. Mayor, we do need a motion. And I believe there's one, the recommendation at the top of the staff report includes a motion. I'm happy to provide that.

It is in here. Right here.

I move to approve the resolution adopting the budget cap.

I don't want one.

This one.

Second. Okay, I move to affirm the Planning Commission approval with Commission's Adhashment 1 and directing staff prepare a final land use decision for consideration at the next available council meeting.

Okay, is there a second? Second. We've been seconded. May we have a roll call vote on that?

Councilor Bravo?

Yes.

Councilor Cantu? Yes. Councilor Cornwell? Yes. Councilor Grijalva? Yes. Councilor Schaub? Yes. Councilor Wilk?

Yes. Thank you. Motion passes. Thank you. We're going to move on to another public hearing. This would be a time if people care to leave.

appropriate you can go

You're exactly right.

Sorry about that.

I have to say, Mr. Mayor, I'm a little disappointed. I was holding out hope that people were all here for the budget.

Automatic approval.

One fell swoop.

Okay.

Well, I know how to clean out a room, Mr. Mayor. I have a budget.

I don't get it.

Heather, are you ready to continue? I am.

Okay, we're going to move on to our fiscal year 26-27 city budget adoption. And I'll open the public hearing. any potential conflicts yes we do um because some of us are be up for election this year uh and there's a stipend in the budget coming up there is a potential conflict that some of us have and i will will say that i as mayor do have a potential conflict in that part of it which i don't think will affect me one way or the other but i'll move on to anyone else

I would also have a potential conflict in part of the budget.

I would also have a potential conflict if I so choose to run for counselor of board three.

Then those are our declarations. With that, I will move on to the staff report.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Similar to the urban renewal agency meeting, we've got the proposed city budget, all funds pending before this committee tonight. Again, the budget committee met. Earlier this year, to spend an entire day of Saturday, I think I mentioned earlier, it's always the nicest day of the year. I do that intentionally. And we started at 9 and we went until about 2.30, 3 o'clock this year and worked through the city's budget. i'm not going to go through all of that again i do encourage anybody interested in the budget to read the city's budget message and to look through the various funds the budget will be posted or is posted online you can always find it there and a few people in this community do look at it and ask questions particularly grateful to people who do spend time on it I do think it's important to just sort of generally characterize the budget. I've described this at other community organizations and events as kind of a novel. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. As the council knows, a lot of the city's dedicated funds are doing quite well, driven mostly by growth in this town that will fund quite a few projects across the city for their dedicated and intended purposes like transportation, waste water, and sewer projects. The other chicken and egg story, I'm not saying the worst of times on this, but strenuous times is in all of our discretionary funding. The city's ARPA funding has concluded, which was money that the city used to fund a lot of community organizations and services. And we're left with sort of what's remaining from the growth-related property tax increases in the general fund. And so those continue to be under stress and city council knows that this year's general fund budget included a reduction of six positions in order to align the general fund with our financial forecast and ensure that we are meeting our objectives of revenues and expense and we're avoiding structural deficits. The added pressure is going to be the startup of the community center. There's additional funds that are going from the general fund. to the community center fund this year with a goal that we're starting a new business and that we're going to need working capital to start that up create a record of how that's going to operate and that is also reflected in this budget as well and so a bit of a dichotomy people are going to be seeing us doing a lot of projects in the community out of those dedicated funds and then we're also being very careful with our discretionary general fund dollars because they are under stress as we begin to undertake some significant projects, some of the long-term goals for the city council and the community center. And the trick that we've been working on trying to grow our services for the community commensurate with the growth in the community. And that is a good problem to have and it is a good challenge for us. This budget, I think, reflects all of the other City Council goals and maintains a lot of the programs and services at their current service levels. And overall, I feel really good about it. And again, I just want to thank not only the City Council, but the volunteers. John Ridehart, the Chair of our Budget Committee, let us know. He's been doing that for 21 years in a row. uh this year his 21st year and what tremendous thing he's done for us on that and then also the staff the budget is a collaborative effort you know we've got just a big shout out to uh to karen and tony and all the department heads it really is a non-contentious collaborative effort everybody's focused on uh doing what's best for the the city and it just really shows in how the easy the budget processes internally develop a product that is we're proud of to hand out to the community so i don't have anything else mr mayor unless there's any questions uh from this uh city council do we have any questions okay thank you thank you mr mayor i do have one citizen that would like to comment terry

Thank you, Mayor and Council, and thank you for the hard work you all do. And budgets are not fun or easy, at least maybe one person, the guy who was 20 years maybe thought it was fun. Terry Gonzales. 21 years. Huh? 21. 21. Whew. You should have a special plaque.

Right?

Yes.

We will.

You will, good. Terry Gonzalez speaking on behalf of North Merion Adult Center again tonight. Starting to be a frequent flyer here. As you know, I've made presentation, I wanna say it was in April and several times in May with some of our guests to advocate for city funding as is done in 88 other senior centers in Oregon. as I was looking through the budget and realizing, oh my gosh, that's tonight. I better hurry up and do this. So I started looking through some of the line items. And I understand, obviously, with the new community space, the pool, obviously, the cost of everything is going up. And the challenges for any services are being challenged with going to the grocery store is a challenging experience these days. But as I read through some of the line items of expenses and just thinking about seniors in our community and that 30% of our community that there's a million dollars that's expense for aquatic and recreation administration, 785,000 for community service administration, $160,000 for the Fiesta, $66,000 to keep the museum open. $50,000 for events, $60,000 for teen services. And how much does this do the seniors have for senior services at this moment? Zero. They represent 30% of our community. And I know as myself, as a 62-year-old person, and looking at many of you all, that we all are in some of this together. That demographic will do nothing but grow. We already know that statistically. There will be more and more seniors. We are a densely populated community of seniors. I also happen to be here the night that your investment folks gave their amazing presentation of the return on investments, which is awesome. It's great to be able to have your money return and provide the city with more revenues. And I want to say it was like over a million dollars just in interest income or asset income, unless I'm wrong. I mean, it's a ton of money, which is great. So I applaud the work that's being done there. I also know, I remember, I was going to go back and watch the video, but I want to say there were $16 million of undesignated monies too. And I also understand you've got to keep some of the bank for, you know, who knows what's going to happen in the future. But that's still $16 million that's available. Also, as mentioned earlier, with the massive development... the building of both business and residential areas here in woodburn i mean look at amazon we've got winco likely coming in this corridor is going to do nothing but explode as we've seen and will continue to explode we are a growing community and yet 30 of our community is seniors they pay taxes they vote That percentage is going to continue to grow when we are decades behind other senior community centers of like size for like communities that I brought up in the past. Again, senior center support is zero. It's disappointing to me that this council hasn't recognized this need, which will grow. This is a great disappointment to the senior center volunteers and community members who have testified to the importance of this space. I know, Mayor, I sent you and Scott a message to say I haven't heard anything prior to the meeting. You said the council thought a $5,000 contribution. When I did the math, that against the budget is 0.0001% of the budget. The average allocation of city budgets to go to senior centers is 0.02 to 0.08. brought by a couple of digits, thousands of dollars. So I would simply ask that you go back to the drawing board and meet at least what the minimum contribution is of 0.02% of your budget to pledge for this year and the future. I believe we deserve at least crumbs from the city budget for this fiscal year and forward. Thank you.

Thank you.

Mr. Mayor, I did see the email, and I do kind of want to just respond quickly about the budget because a lot of the services that were mentioned tonight is expenditure in the budgets go to serve people in the community, including seniors. They avail themselves of those services all the time. The other thing, too, is I do get asked about the interest earnings often. that number does float. And I know maybe the general public, you know, there's a lot of nuance to Oregon budget law, but those are dedicated and restricted to those funds for which that interest is generated and distributed in those funds themselves. If you look, you can see the interest rates are allocated there. So the interest rates on those accounts are not available for discretionary use by and large, other than the general fund contributions. Let's go to support the general fund services. Many of them are just mentioned up here. So I do appreciate the request for funding for sure. But a lot of the services and programs we provide from all public safety and programming and family support services, the Family Resource Center efforts, everything serves everybody in this community, 30% of which are more seniors. I just wanted to say that. Thank you. the budget committee talked about um uh one of the handouts that terry had that talked about community uh participation by buying membership or i don't know if membership is the right thing there was different giving categories i think the gold category was like five thousand As five, and so as a community organization, I think the budget committee talked about buying a $5,000 sponsorship that was offered on the flyer that was handed out at the meeting. And is contained in the proposed budget.

Thank you. Any other questions?

i will close the public hearing and discussion from the council i do agree that we have a tremendous community service outreach program and with our new community center and aquatic center gets built and all those things are available that there's plenty of space and opportunity for services they're not just to the youth but to the seniors like myself that are waiting for that pool to open up on time and get back to those services that are already vastly there. So I don't feel that we have neglected our seniors. Right now, our children are being neglected because we don't have our aquatic and community services back. But I believe that we are doing the best that we have with the resources that we have. Thank you.

Thank you.

Is there an opportunity maybe it's not going to happen tonight or stall the budget for this year but like to continue the conversation or what opportunities does the city have to bring like Councilor Grijalva is saying, to bring senior services to the community center once it's opened? Or what are some options?

A senior service component has always been envisioned for the community center as a space for community services, including senior programming, youth programming. And in fact, Years ago, when we looked at a senior center, this is how old I am, it's been quite a while, but one of the concepts was that bringing young people and elderly people together was a good thing, was a positive thing, as opposed to senior restricted right. And so the community center concept was, I think, then pursued as a way that would provide more holistic comprehensive opportunities to people of all ages in the community, but particularly seniors with Families and younger people could avail themselves of a variety of programming and services there. So that has been the idea. And of course, we have supported the efforts. I've heard people mention the food programming. I think the city has given a neighborhood of $123,000 of funding to the Lutheran Church's food program.

Woodburn Community Meal, I think it's called. Yeah.

Yeah, amongst other social service outreach and programming that we're able to bring to Woodburn as well as part of the ARPA funding, which is now dried up. Prior to the ARPA funding, the city provided zero funding for any outside organizations. And we sort of tried to open the door with that with the ARPA funding and with the growth in the community to ensure that we are bringing services and programs to serve the entire community. You know, I think we're always open for discussion and looking for opportunities. We've certainly been in long-term conversations with Terry ever since I've been here on various ideas and concepts for the use of the property in the building, for sure.

Have you done the math as to how much she's asking for tonight? She actually gave a percentage of the budget.

Well, the problem, I don't know what the numbers are, but the thing is, is we've got Much of the budget, you look at the number on the budget here, that is including restricted and dedicated funds that cannot be allocated for things outside like water, sewer, SDC funds. All of those funds have significant amounts of money that would be violations of law to allocate elsewhere for services and programs. So really it's just a general fund. the general fund is really the discretionary dollars the council has and we allocate a bulk of our property tax revenue providing police services and then we're trying to utilize some of our cash savings that we've been able to generate to support the fire up of the community center project. That's where a lot of that is. And then the other cash just carries us. This cash we rely on between We have cash management needs here at the city. So we only get property tax revenue in the fall and other revenues throughout the year, but our cash is what floats us and our expenses in between those times, which is why we've got substantial cash in the general city there.

And then also I do believe in our last conversation with her, Scott offered to introduce her to the other communities that they serve to help them with that as well. I'm not sure if they ever took you up on that, but we haven't heard yet from them either. Because they don't just serve Woodburn, they serve all of North Marion County. So I was going to ask if they had stayed, if they had had any movement with Marion County, but

Well, certainly appreciate everything they do. I mean, they certainly do a great job, and they're very innovative in trying to expand their services and their programs out of their facility to meet the needs of the community. I think it's great, for sure. And the city has done, I think, a lot in food distribution, not only in contributions to them, but the city's involvement in the food bank, 2 million pounds of food there. That goes out to... I mean, I'm pretty sure it goes out to lots of age brackets, probably reflecting the demographic of the region. So I mean, the city, I think, has done quite a bit to lift as much as we can broadly across the community. And I'd say the budget reflects that.

I have a couple of thoughts. One is that I really appreciate all the hard work that goes into putting our budget together and the fact that there are many other jurisdictions in the state right now that are just taking out the hatchet and slashing away positions because they have not been as well managed as our city is. So I feel really good to be in this position as a counselor where we have a a fairly stable budget that nonetheless this year involves some cuts to some positions and some services that we might otherwise want to keep. I also acknowledge that seniors are an important component of our community and it is somewhat personally embarrassing to to know that there are so many community centers that are in our state that are funded by cities and we're not one of them. That said, I find myself in a difficult position as this pretty substantial income request has come right when we're in the middle of the budget process. And what I would suggest is that to the extent that we can have some continuing conversations about how we can provide services to seniors and the actual workings of our North Merion Senior Center, who they serve, what's really the makeup of their services. so that we are in a better position to analyze in future budget years whether a more substantial contribution might make sense.

Council Member Wilk, somebody asked what would the percentage be? Was it 3%? Point zero two. Point zero two. If you look at, the only part of the budget would be available for that would be the general fund. So it wouldn't be across all funds. And you pulled out some of the uneligible things. It would be about $60,000. A lot more.

Was it more than that?

The problem I'm seeing is you earmark that amount. They have to figure out how to manage that amount to keep it legitimate to us. And that's going to take money away from the money that we earmarked to give to the functional system they're trying to run. So we're losing money in the management of the money.

That would just be the straight cash contribution. That would be what? Just the cash.

But who makes sure that it goes where it's supposed to be?

We'd have to be a granting agreement. It would have to be importing. It's not unlike the other ARPA agreements that we've used for other nonprofit organizations when we had ARPA funding.

Okay, any other discussion on the budget? Then I would entertain a motion.

Point of order. There's actually a resolution later on on the agenda for this item.

close it so we just vote no we have one more hearing after this and then the resolutions yeah are two more one more budget related hearing and then we have those resolutions are coming up next on the under general business so move on to the resolution regarding state revenue sharing open public hearing Super exciting hearing. I've been doing this hearing my entire career. I've never had anybody provide any comment or input on it, but it is a requirement of the state that we conduct a public hearing on state shared revenues, which are reflected in the budget for their various intended purpose and uses. This is the money that the city gets from statewide gas tax, lotto money distribution, lotto tax, cigarette tax, marijuana tax, money that's exclusively collected by the state in exchange for us not being able to tax it. They give us, the city is a little piece of that money every year. Some of us not so little when it comes to the transportation fund, which is a substantial source of funding for transportation. But we conduct a hearing on that as required by state law, Mr. Mayor.

OK. Any discussion?

Actually, I have one question or a comment, maybe a question. What is our revenue sharing going to look like this budget year? My recollection was that some of that was the transient occupancy tax was redirected to wildlife restoration?

Yes, the TOT is not a state shared revenue. It is a city imposed tax. and it's regulated by state law in its distribution formula based on when the city implemented it and how much we'd implemented. That funding right now primarily goes to the general fund for our, I'm sorry, economic development programming and then also it helps fund the TOT agreement with the Chamber of Commerce for their cooperation. So it is dedicated to economic development, a substantial portion of it. Did you want to hear about the other balances in the state shared revenue program? Tony is ready, at the ready.

So in the budget line items, it'll be under intergovernmental, and it'll show that there's the liquor. I think the state shared revenue is actually $350,000 is what we have budgeted. The other line items are also there with the liquor tax, the cigarette proration, and other things, but we do have to adopt the resolution.

The statewide gas tax, Tony, I'm sorry. That's not state-shared revenue. Okay. Syntaxes, yes.

Okay, I'm good.

Thank you.

So, You need a motion to adopt the resolution?

We have one more hearing. We just need you to ask for testimony from proponents or opponents.

I'm sorry, I can't hear you.

Testimony.

Oh, I'm sorry. Do we have any testimony by proponents? Opponents? Close public hearing. Any discussion? Okay.

One more hearing, Mr. Mayor, I promise.

Okay. Okay, open public hearing on the legislative amendment for development ordinance. Do we have any declarations? No. Do we have staff report?

Yes. Thank you, Mayor. One sec. I'll get it pulled up here. Thanks for bearing with me. One more hearing. This is the last hearing. Oh, that is the wrong one. We're not doing that one over. We're not doing that one over. Just making sure everyone's awake. Okay. minimize that. Thank you, Mayor, Councilors. My name's Dan Handel. I'm the Senior Planner for the city. And as the Mayor mentioned, we're looking at a legislative amendment here tonight. This is regarding the Woodburn Development Ordinance, specifically industrial zones and more specifically the Southwest Industrial Zone. So this is legislative amendment 26-04. I just want to make sure I didn't just mute everybody. No, we're good. Okay. Okay, so quick summary of the amendments tonight. The intent and the goals here are twofold. First, we're looking at updating our allowed uses within industrial zones to provide a pathway for development for target industries identified in the 2024 Economic Opportunities Analysis Report. And then second, we're looking at updating the development standards specifically for that southwest industrial reserve zone. And we're looking for those development standards to be consistent with the goals and policies in our comprehensive plan. So just briefly want to give you some context for these amendments before you tonight. A few years ago, 2023, the city began working on a UGB expansion, urban growth boundary expansion. And that was to include the Southwest urban reserve area. It's kind of this rough square. It's about 230 plus acres. And that was, area within our urban reserve, we were looking to bring that into our urban growth boundary. And then January 2024, city council adopted the economic opportunities analysis report, as well as some associated revisions to the comprehensive plan. Real quick, the economic opportunities analysis is basically a kind of a 20 year economic development strategy for the city. to give you a little bit of a refresher on that. Looks at various target industries that the city should be targeting to bring in. And then also, do we have enough land supply to support and provide for those industries? Looks at commercial and industrial. And that's all kind of part of a UGB expansion. And I'll be going into a little bit more on that report in just a moment. But April 2025 then is when the state approved the city's urban growth boundary expansion. So that square here got brought into. our line and then earlier this year city council passed a resolution to initiate a broad scope of legislative amendments to our development ordinance what's before you tonight is a small part of that resolution and we're going to kind of focus in here for a moment on that economic opportunities analysis so I mentioned it looks at target industries that the city should be bringing in and we're focusing tonight on the industrial components of that and want to bring your attention to two of them manufacturing and then transportation warehousing utilities is second particularly for manufacturing this report identifies kind of your traditional manufacturing things that use wood metal products plastic products creating food food items things like that But now, this is new for this report. Some new targets include these high technology manufacturing. So that's highlighted at the bottom there. So we're looking at a lot of computational manufacturing, so semiconductors, chips, computers, servers, automation technology, transportation equipment, Especially now we're looking at a lot more electric vehicles on the roadways. Those have their own components and batteries and charging equipment, things like that. And all that needs to be manufactured. So those are some new targets identified in this report for the city to look at. And then that second bucket talked about transportation, warehousing and utilities. We're familiar with warehousing and distribution centers with the Amazon facility and of course WinCo's facility and Do It Best on the other side of the interstate there. Some new items here, also kind of coming about with these emerging technologies, so trucking terminals, charging stations, but also data centers and related telecommunications infrastructure. I know it's a hot topic right now. It's one of the fastest growing industries nationwide, tons of private investment nationally and within the state. Yeah, go ahead.

I was going to have a question because in the materials that I got, the data centers and those were allowing them as a conditional use only.

Yes.

Why and whereas high manufacturing, all those other ones are not or why would that be seen as conditional use only?

Yeah, yeah, I got that coming up in one or two slides. But it's a good, good question. I'm going to get into that in just a moment. So, yeah, data centers, hot topic right now. and it is identified in our economic opportunities analysis. So our proposed amendments for you tonight, Again, the intent here is to align our zoning ordinance and our uses allowed in industrial zones to facilitate these target industries having a pathway for development here in town. A lot of them have already been covered or already found in the various categories in our uses table. So that's why the new text in red here is pretty limited. Specifically we're adding transportation equipment, manufacturing, EV tech, infrastructure permitted in all industrial zones. And then also wanting to call out food processing in addition to manufacturing because it wasn't clearly identified. as processing being allowed. Everything else except data centers is already found in our zoning table for industrial uses as permitted outright. And then the second component focusing more on those data storage processing and information technology centers is what we're calling them here. We're calling those out specifically as a conditional use and that's you'll see only allowed in the Southwest Industrial Reserve Zoning District. I did want to point out, as we were putting these proposed amendments together, we did reference Hillsborough, the Dalles, and Prineville, those community development codes, as examples of communities that have numerous data centers already in their cities, so those were referenced as we considered what to propose for your consideration. And to your question about why conditional use, we really felt like this was the best way to categorize the data center use for the city of Woodburn. So conditional use, this comes from our development code right now, kind of a purpose statement. Essentially, it guarantees a public hearing And it also allows conditions to be imposed to offset impacts and make the use as compatible as practical with surrounding uses. So there's a lot of discussion about impacts to community as a result of these data centers. You know we have about 230 acres now of flat undeveloped land that's able to be annexed into the city as industrial land. It's nearby residential areas and commercial shopping areas we just heard earlier this evening. So that in itself is an argument to use the conditional use process. But also just the fact that this technology is innovating so quickly, the way power is generated and stored, the way equipment is cooled, the size of the sites, it just varies so drastically from project to project across the country. So it's difficult for us to try and come up with a one size fits all special group of requirements, they could be outdated in six months. So the conditional use process lets us go through kind of a very project specific, okay, how is this going to impact the surrounding properties, this community as a whole? We're able to open up all of our adopted plans to look at how we can condition and mitigate any impacts. So transportation system plan, our utility master plans, our parks and rec master plan, all these plans we can look at. So I hope that gives a little bit insight into that. And then separately, the other half of the proposed amendments before you tonight, looking specifically again at that Southwest Industrial Reserve, the image on the top right here, this is our site development standards table. And right now, the minimum lot area actually references a different table And that table outlines, it's actually very similar to the interchange management area. It has different sub areas. Each sub area has a list of lot sizes that are kind of prescribed. And there's also employment requirements. And so the proposed amendments before you tonight are actually scratching that table entirely. and going to just a flat five acre minimum and then there's a little allowance here to go below that if the applicant can provide an argument that their proposal contributes substantially to our economic objectives in our conference plan but for our purposes five acres is the new proposed minimum And that number is not arbitrary. This actually ties back into that economic opportunities analysis. The consultant who helped the city put this together did a, what do we call it, an industry site requirements analysis. They looked at a dozen different industries that would be typical or were targeted, excuse me, uh... and and looked at what kind of site requirements they would be needing and uh... for some of the industrial put specific uh... targets we see five as kind of a common denominator uh... of course some look look for more but uh... five being that minimum common denominator there uh... and Just to, I guess, discuss that other table a little bit more. Keeping it right now, well, one, it was removed. That same table used to be in our comprehensive plan. It was removed in 2024. So these amendments would bring our development ordinance into just being consistent with the comprehensive plan. But also, there's just some problems with keeping that table. Some of those sub areas had minimum like lot size requirements which would effectively require the owners of those properties to either modify their property lines or consolidate to get bigger. Other property owners were effectively had to divide their property to get to those minimum lot sizes. Other areas had prohibitions entirely on land divisions. And then in terms of the employment requirements, those are just difficult to enforce. We can estimate, you know, when we're reviewing, let's say, you know, WinCo estimates 130 employees. It's hard to enforce that after the fact. And then if another business comes in later, how do we enforce that? So there's just challenges with enforcing employment minimums. So long-winded answer or justification here for scratching that other table. But we are proposing the five acre minimum And that's the extent of the amendments proposed. Staff recommends approval. The Planning Commission held their public hearing on May 14th, unanimously recommended approval. So you actually have an ordinance also on your agenda tonight for this item if you choose to approve it. otherwise you have some alternative actions you can modify it modify the amendment you can postpone your decision if you want to come back at a later time with more deliberation you can deny it if you choose to approve and unanimously tonight we would do both readings and then it would take effect 30 days from today if it's not approved unanimously then it would just come back for a second reading Thank you.

Thank you, Dan. Any questions for Dan? Thank you. Anyone in the public like to come up and speak on behalf? Against? Close the public hearing. Any discussion from the council at this point?

I have one comment just concerning data centers in particular since they're now specifically called out as an additional industrial use. And it goes like this. It's kind of like the next new big thing, you know. Everyone wants a data center. Well, we're beginning to understand that there are a lot of baggage that comes with these centers sometimes, not the least of which is that they can be huge, they can be noisy, and they use a heck of a lot of electricity and water. And so I think it's appropriate that if we're going to venture in and calling them out as a use that they be as a conditional use at this point. So that we have some better control over what comes through.

But even conditional use just means it can only go in a certain area, right?

It's allowed only in that zone and then as a conditional use so that means it's allowed doesn't mean it's automatically approvable sure the city can put conditions on that project to Mitigate any negative impacts or if you believe that no amount of conditions can Rectify or mitigate any of those impacts and you can deny that permit I

This does give the City Council and the Planning Commission real tools and establishes these tools that arguably don't exist now.

Because I imagine if it goes to the planning commission, if a data center, right, went to the planning commission, it would be appealed and come to us.

Almost certainly. Exactly. Right. Not looking at me.

I think there's going to be a lot of discussion from the council and the city going forward on data centers.

Is there a reason that we are, is there an interest in putting one here and that's the reason that we're adding it?

Well, I think if you read the newspaper and look broadly across the region, that these are hot issues and topics. In fact, I think I read an article this morning about a community grappling with these types of developments. So I just think basically it's forward looking, you know, and we do, you know, we do know that Woodburn has a lot of developable property. And so I think it just is us wanting to make sure that we are ahead of the curve for whatever may or may not come through the door at any time.

So what I hear you saying is that just because we're adding data center as a industrial usage doesn't, that just means we're trying to pre ahead of everything, put things in order.

Well, I think we're looking at the tea leaves and we're trying to ensure that Woodburn has the tools in place so we can grapple with any eventuality.

okay that makes sense i mean it's not saying that because we're adding this in that means we're welcoming anybody that wants to build a no in fact what we're doing is uh instead of welcoming anybody what i think we're doing is we're saying that you know We have chefs in place.

Should we have a project that we want to condition based on its impact in the community, it needs to be identified as a conditional use specifically. Given what we've seen happening regionally and based on what we know, I think it's a prudent move for the city to anticipate, like I say, any eventuality of what may or may not ever come to be.

I THINK IT'S BEST THAT WE ARE BEING PROACTIVE AND PREPARING OURSELVES AND DOING THE RESEARCH WITH THE OTHER COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE ALREADY GONE THROUGH THIS PROCESS. SO WE LEARN FROM MAYBE UNFORTUNATELY THEIR MISTAKES, BUT I APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT WE'RE PUTTING THESE, YOU KNOW, LITTLE, NOT BARRIERS, BUT GUIDE POSTS.

WELL, ONE OF THE THINGS, COUNSELOR, IF I COULD JUST THROW OUT THERE. When we look at some of the other substantial developments that have occurred in Woodburn, one of the things we like to think and to say is that the city had the level of sophistication, the tools at our disposal that we were able to meet some pretty big companies and some pretty small companies kind of where they were and in a way that we could ensure that their project was not detrimental to the community, but added value, was consistent, and was in line with the goals of the city council for economic development. This is kind of along those lines where I think that we know that this is an issue that these facilities are developing in Oregon. We have developable property in Oregon, that this is us putting framework in place so that we can have levers to pull if we need to pull them down the road. So this is us wanting to be ahead of whatever may come through the door.

I appreciate that. Any other discussion? Close the public hearing. And we'll move on to general business. First up is council bill number 3302. You want to introduce that?

I'd like to introduce council bill number 3302.

Council Bill 3302 has been duly introduced and being an ordinance requires two readings. May we please have the first reading by title only if there's no objection.

Council Bill number 3302, an ordinance adopting amendments to the Woodburn Development Ordinance regarding sewer zone uses and standards, LA 26-04.

We've had our first reading of Council Bill 3302. May we now have our second reading by title only if there's no objection.

Council Bill Number 3302, an ordinance adopting amendments to the Woodburn Development Ordinance regarding SWER zone uses and standards, LA 26-04. Thank you.

Anything, Dan, you'd like to add to this? No. OK. Any discussion? Then may we have a, we need a roll call vote on that? Yes. Yes, we do. Have a roll call vote, please.

Councillor Wilk?

Aye.

Councillor Schaub? Aye. Councillor Cornwell? Yes. Councillor Bravo?

Aye.

Councillor Grijalva? Yes. Councillor Cantu? Yes.

Council Bill 3302 has been duly passed. Thank you. Moving on to Council Bill 3303.

Sorry. I'd like to, what am I saying?

Introducing Council Bill. Sorry.

It's getting late. Sorry. I'll be professional. I'd like to introduce Council Bill number 3303.

Thank you. Council Bill 3303 has been duly introduced. And as a resolution, such requires one reading. May we please have the reading by title only if there's no objection?

Council Bill Number 3303, a resolution authorizing the transfer of appropriations within the insurance fund for the fiscal year 2025-2026. Thank you.

Any discussion? May we have a roll call vote, please?

Councillor Bravo?

Yes.

Councillor Villalba? Yes. Councillor Kentu? Yes. Councillor Wilk? Yes. Councillor Schaub? Yes. Councillor Cornwell? Yes.

Council Bill 3303 has been duly passed. Thank you. Next up we have Council Bill 3304.

I'd like to introduce Council Bill number 3304.

Thank you. Council Bill 3304 has been duly introduced and is resolution as such requires one reading. May we please have the reading by title only if there's no objection.

Council Bill number 3304, a resolution adopting the fiscal year 2026-27 budget, making budget appropriations and categorizing taxes.

Thank you. Any discussion? May we please have a roll call vote?

Councillor Schaub? Yes. Councillor Cantu? Yes. Councillor Wilk?

Yes.

Councillor Grijalva? Yes. Councillor Cornwell? Yes. Councillor Bravo?

Yes. Council Bill 3304 has been duly passed, thank you. Next up we have Council Bill 3305.

I'd like to introduce Council for, excuse me, Council Number 3305.

Council Bill 3305 has been duly introduced and as the resolution requires one reading, may we please have the reading by title only, if there's no objection.

Council Bill Number 3305, a resolution declaring the City of Woodburn's eligibility and election to receive state revenue sharing.

Thank you. May we have a roll call vote, please?

Councillor Grijalva? Yes. Councillor Cornwell? Yes. Councillor Schaub? Yes. Councillor Bravo? Yes. Councillor Cantu? Yes. Councillor Wilk?

Yes.

Council Bill 3305, it's been duly passed. Thank you. Next up, under General Business, we have the award of a construction contract for the Settlemyer Park Construction. We have a staff report. Jesse?

Yeah, we'll keep this one brief tonight. So the contract award before you tonight is to award the contract to First Cascade Corp. in the amount of $2,055,469.32 with the contingency of $125,000 for the improvements at Settlemire Park. You all are aware of this project. We've done presentations on it in the past. A couple of quick notes. In the staff report that got submitted in the council packet, there was a minor error. There was a type 2 that got deleted. And so just a quick reminder on this project, this is all outside of general fund dollars. So it's being funded through multiple funding sources. $1 million from the local government grant program, $2 million from Leslie Munoz legislative allocation. We have 250 Oh, sorry. Of that $2 million, I do want to point out that $500,000 of that will be dedicated to the exterior improvements of the community center, the parking improvements, things like that, seeing that as a cohesive connection with the park. $250,000 allocation from Andrea Salinas's office, $39,000 and some change for motor health, and $20,000 from Rotary. I just kind of want to point out those things, because we deleted a 2 on the $2 million. So there's a big difference between 0-0-0 and 2-0-0-0. So and then, yeah, we did receive a decent amount of bids on this project. We received 10 bids. So a handful on the top did fall within the base bid estimate from our consultants. And then what you're approving tonight would be the base bid plus three alternates. The alternates would be concrete pathways versus asphalt. And then versus doing asphalt sports courts, which is going to be a full court basketball court and replacement of the tennis court slash pickleball courts. Those are going to be concrete as well. The longevity is much longer on those. As you can imagine, you receive less cracking and things like that. And then the third alternate is for the additional sports court lighting. So it would be new lighting on the tennis courts as well as sports court lighting on the basketball courts as well. But with that, I'm happy to answer any questions.

Any questions? I think you've been very creative in funding for that. I think the staff has done a fantastic job, you, Granada, everybody.

Yeah, it's been a good team effort on this one. We found some kind of fun sources and some things kind of went or broke our way. And we have definitely some people in our corner when it comes to some of the legislative funding things, too. So thank you for everyone who contributed that, council members and mayor and everyone on our staff team as well. Thank you.

Will the completion tie into the completion of the pool?

Yeah, so this project will be done prior to the actual community center. It will be done ahead of time, the actual completion of this piece. We're looking at probably a September time. I always like to give me an extra month or two. But that's, you know, we're looking at going into contract and then it should be about 120 days. These park projects are pretty basic, so unless we run into anything major, but it's basic concrete work and the playground install and things like that. But it's nothing, we're not building 17,000 square feet like other parts of our projects, so it's pretty basic.

So that's September of this year?

Yeah, that would be ideal. I'm going to say it's probably going to be a little later, just because we asked them to do a 120-day window. I'm guessing it's going to be very similar to the Trillium Park project. We were hoping for a September kind of finished substantial completion, they call it, where you're just kind of doing touch-up, minor things, maybe a bench or two installed. that are still left. But we're hoping, you know, September, October would be great. Unfortunately, that's not the best time for an unveiling or kind of grand opening, but we can definitely work that into when we get some better weather in the spring.

Thank you. Any other questions, discussion, and entertain a motion?

I move to award a construction contract for the Setelmaya Park construction project to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder, First Cascade Corp. any amount of $2,055,469.32 with an additional $125,000 for continued fee and authorize the city manager to sign the agreement.

Thank you. Is there a second?

Second.

Move and second it. All in favor, signify with an aye. Aye. Opposed, the same. The motion passes.

Thank you.

Congratulations. Do not have any other business. And hopefully we don't have anything else from the Planning Commission to talk to you about tonight. City Manager's Report.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just a couple things. I would like to introduce the city attorney who would like to introduce somebody to the city council tonight.

Good evening, city council. Mackenzie Grant, I'm here, your city attorney. I am pleased to welcome a guest to our staff side this evening, Sebastian Krueger. He's our summer law clerk. He is a 2L attorney. or just finished his second year of law school at Willamette and will be here through the summer and likely also part-time in the fall. So Sebastian, you want to say some words?

Mr. Mayor, city council, I'm excited to be working with the law team and the city of Woodburn. I've been here, this is my fifth week and the first month was really great. So I'm excited to continue working here and thanks for letting me say hello to you all.

All right.

Welcome. Thank you.

Thanks, Sebastian. And then I also would like to introduce our police chief, who would like to tell you about a recent command level hire that he made just like today, I think.

Good evening. Jason Milliken, your chief of police. And what Scott is referring to is we held a competitive lieutenant's process last week. And we had an external applicant and an internal applicant. And after that process was concluded and after an executive interview of a Thorough questioning by our city manager. We have decided, I have decided, I'm going to promote Nick Wilson, one of our sergeants, to lieutenant. He will take that position effective the 22nd, which will be in line with our council meeting, so he'll be sworn in here. assuming all goes well and i believe he'll be here but i don't think he's going to be out of town or anything so um that i do plan to do on 22nd and then that means we open up a sergeant's position which i will do a promotion process for that and then very near future and that we have people already asking about that position in our department that'll be internal only um we have plenty of people that will apply for that so that just will create another officer's position for me to hire congratulations yeah thank you it's a it's a big deal for us a lot of changes in the last couple of years a lot of upward movement a lot of irons in the fire a lot of directions that we're trying to go so it's been a good time it's been fun it's been exciting and challenging but uh uh okay i said it before i've told all my people buckle your seat belts are going for a ride that's all i have mr mayor okay thank you thank you

then uh mayor council reports start yes first of all i want uh nelly muir uh student council thanks the city of woodburn's police department and brenda bravo for the chocolate it was a wonderful tour thank you again see you next year I ALSO THIS YEAR ATTENDED OR THIS MONTH ATTENDED THE OREGON DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. WE'RE PART OF THAT LITTLE GROUP THERE. AND AS YOU KNOW, THEY'RE STRUGGLING THROUGH THEIR BUDGET. THEY HAVE AN INTERIM DIRECTOR AND THEY DON'T PLAN TO HIRE ONE. completely until December. So Chris Warren's gonna be there for a little bit of time. A couple of projects that I thought were interesting is that they are doing a transportation safety action plan and it was just startling to me that the fatal and serious injury crashes in Oregon from 2018 went up from 7,000 to like over 11,000. And so they've developed, they've done the research and they've identified what some of the issues are and they have two tiers on how they would like to address those in their safety plan. And it's pretty much split in terms of state roads and local roads, 49 state roads, 51% local roads. But the top tier areas that they're looking at is the accidents around roadway departures, intersections, speed-related, but then also alcohol and other drugs. And those are the things that are really causing a lot of that. And I think we see that even here. Those seem to be kind of the same issues statewide for everyone. The second tier, I think we all know, age drivers and young drivers. and pedestrians, bicycles, things like that. But they figured if they addressed these four first, it would be targeting all those other issues, hopefully at the same time. Then they had, they talked about the county designated safety corridors. And in our area, that's the I-5 Aurora going up. You know, they did all that work over there. And now they're looking at for the second project is that Cordon Road connecting to Silverton and going just outside of Silverton and seeing what they can do there. TO IMPROVE SAFETY ON THAT AREA. SO IT WAS A PRETTY INTERESTING MEETING, AND THEY'RE PRETTY BUSY WITH WHAT THEY HAVE, AND KIND OF SAD TO SEE SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT ARE GOING TO BE AFFECTED WITH THE FUNDING, LIKE THIS, I THINK WE HEARD FROM RENATA BEFORE, THE STUDENT, THE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL, HIGHWAY FUNDS AND OPERATING FUNDS, AND EVEN THE STUDENT, THERE'S JUST MONEY COMING, EVERYONE IN ITS DEPARTMENT IS LOSING MONEY, SO IT'S TOUGH.

ANYTHING FOR MAINTENANCE ON FIXED FILL AND POT HOMES?

POT HOMES, YEAH. YOU KNOW HOW THAT'S GOING TO BE. THE NUMBERS THAT THEY GAVE US AND THE MILLIONS FOR REPAIRING AND REPLACING, I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW THAT DEPARTMENT NEEDS ATTENTION, AND HOPEFULLY CHRIS WARNER WILL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME SUPPORT. I DON'T KNOW. BUT, YEAH.

THANK YOU, COUNCILOR, FOR GIVING US UP TO DATE.

THANK YOU. I've got nothing.

So I have a question. I noticed these cute little stickers with the city of Woodburn. I know at least one councilor thought this was like totally 80s and the bison looks pretty cool. Are we going to take council action and like adopting the official city sticker at some point or is that? Just something to consider.

I think Brenda made these. They're really cute. Yeah.

You know, I have noticed more speeders and more red light runners in town recently. And so I would just... And the statistics for our red light and speed cameras seem to show a bump up in the month of April about those violations. So I just urge everyone to be safe and take your foot off the gas and watch those red lights.

Safety is still a concern. Yeah. Thank you.

I have nothing to add.

Okay. Councilor Barlow? Nothing from me. Councilor Kernow?

Oh, I have lots.

Well, speak first.

First thing is June 20th, there's the library, Friends of the Library having a book sale that I encourage everybody to go see because they have wonderful books that they're helping to raise funds to support some aspect of the library. Also, I was able to attend the dedication of the metal sculptures at Woodburn High School, which represents here on the stickers, Bison Antiquitous. And this is part of our future legacy, and I appreciate the stickers. They're great. And also the next night I was able to attend a gathering at Top Wire and that's my first time I've ever been there. I was quite impressed. It's a local brewery that you can go out there. They have food carts and you can just hang out and Everybody's nodding, so they've been there already. But again, kudos for a local business. It's doing well, and I'm glad to see the Crosby family is still rocking it here in town. Yeah.

What Councillor Cornwall did not say is that gathering at Top Wire was the retirement party for a teacher Catherine Johnstone the art teacher that is also on our art mural committee and unfortunately she's gonna be stepping down from that so we will have a new liaison to deal with and the other thing council Cornwell did not say was she's the one that gave the thanks and appreciation to the designer and Dave Ellenson for the work they did on the bison family. So thank you for taking the lead on that. Hopefully everybody has seen it and enjoys it. The city had quite an expense in putting the family bison together, and they look great.

And Dave also wrote a book, a soft cover book, that does the whole adventure of what he went through for the last 20 years with this project. And I think it'll be available at the Woodburn Berry Museum, Bungalow Museum.

Yeah, Dave said that. And not only that, in the book, He was very high and appreciative of the city of Woodburn for the city's help and participation over the last 20-some years in the dig. He's very appreciative and calls out several Woodburn people.

And as well as putting the bones structurally in the museum because we saved them, we kept them here, which was pretty awesome.

Anything else?

No, I'll stop.

Thank you, very good. The only thing I have is Saturday night I was honored to represent Woodburn. Mayor Wilson of Portland has invited all of the mayors of Oregon, 230 some, to walk with him in the Rose Festival Parade. There were about 50 of us that showed up at a reception, 30 of us probably walked in the parade. It was an honor to recognize Woodburn and be part of that, having a sash. And we had one very vocal, active participant from Woodburn. Our attorney was out there waving and doing her part. It was fun seeing her. It was a good event. A long day, but a good event. So, anything else before we go to the order? Then I'd entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Seconded. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Thank you. Good evening.