Order.

Will the recorder call the roll?

Councillor Duggar?

I am here.

Councillor Hart Mayor Prigg?

Here.

Councillor Hassan?

Here.

Councillor Kimmy?

Councilor Teeter?

Here.

Councillor Tivnon?

Mayor Beatty?

Here.

Thank you.

Awesome.

Thank you for that.

I do see we have an honorary deputy member with us today in the back wearing a helmet.

So when he comes up here to present, if you need someone to hold him, I'll volunteer as tribute.

As long as everyone else in the room as well.

It's always a good day in council when there's young people.

What I appreciate about being the mayor here is the focus on family and making sure that our kids are visible in public spaces.

So thanks, Jocelyn, for bringing him.

And if uh your topic doesn't go well, just blame him and walk out.

It's great.

All right, we have uh uh uh hefty light agenda today.

Uh we have an action item.

The first thing that you will witness is the election of the council president that we do at the first meeting in January.

We have visitor comments uh for those that are pre-registered.

We have a presentation about uh the county's housing service annual report, a very intensive uh consent agenda, an ordinance first reading and a work session.

So with that, we'll jump in.

Uh tonight for the election of the council president.

Do we have a nomination?

Councilor Teeter, first in the chat.

Uh yes, Mayor, I'd like to nominate Councillor Duggar for council president.

I think we we typically ask uh if you'd like that nomination, but the I'll take the thumbs up as yes.

Do we have a second?

Second.

Ooh, a three-way fight.

I'm gonna go ahead and give it to Edward as the current council president.

So it was uh moved by Councillor Teeter, seconded by Council President.

Uh are there any other nominations for the floor this evening?

Seeing none, will the recorder call the roll?

Councillor Duggar.

Yes.

Councilor Hartmeyer Prigg.

Yes.

Councilor Hassan.

Yes.

Councilor Kimmy.

Yes.

Counselor Teeter.

Yes.

Counselor Tivmon?

Yes.

Mayor Beatty.

Yes.

Seven, yes, zero no motion carries.

All right.

Um just if you are a fan of local government, it took the city of Portland, I think, 17 rounds to do what we did in one.

So congratulations, Council President.

Yeah.

Uh all right.

Uh we are on to visitor comments this evening.

As a reminder, visitor comments is an essential part of local government business.

However, to help us stay compliant with Oregon's open meeting law, this is not a time for dialogue.

This is a time for us to listen.

If follow-up is required, our city manager or our uh uh clerk will take down notes and uh do it from there.

So first up uh on deck is Stacey, and then followed by Alexis.

Right.

Next will be David Anderson.

Hello everyone, my name is David Anderson.

I'm a longtime resident of Beaverton and a local business owner.

I want to state that this is not about politics, it is about due process.

I'm here today to ask that you take action in response to unlawful ice activities in Beaverton.

On November 1st, 2025, a pickup truck was barricaded in the parking lot outside of my business by two unmarked vehicles.

They had no front license plates, but the rear rear license plates were the same.

Three armed and masked men exited the vehicles and detained the driver of the pickup, zip tying his hands and placing him in one of their vehicles before leaving the parking lot at unsafe speeds.

The young man is a United States citizen and was held for 23 minutes before being released several blocks away.

During the incident, ICE agents told a witness that they could keep his pickup, sell it or tow it, and that they didn't care what was done with it.

All of this was captured on our security cameras and has been provided to Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition.

Additionally, on December 23rd, 2025, a member of our community was threatened by more than six ICE agents while standing on the public sidewalk outside the Beaverton Police Department.

A video about this incident was posted online, including to the Beaverton subreddit, the city councillors have said they used to keep a pulse on the community.

Therefore, I'm assuming you have all seen this video and have already discussed it amongst yourselves.

In January 2017, Beaverton City Council voted unanimously to declare this a sanctuary city, which among other things prevents local resources from being used to enforce federal immigration law.

Why were ICE vehicles parked in the Beaverton Police Department lot?

Why were ICE agents standing in the lot while threatening a member of the public?

Doesn't this violate Beaverton's laws barring local police from supporting ICE activity?

The abuse of force, violations of constitutional rights and laws, and threats against the public proves ICE is disregarding due process within the city.

Therefore, I ask you now, one, to compel Beaverton police to prevent ice from any activities on city-owned property.

Two, to compel Beaverton police to monitor ice any time it is on city owned property.

Three, to compel Beaverton police to respond to and monitor ice activities when requested by the public to ensure due process is being followed.

And four, to compel Beaverton police to issue citations or arrest ice agents when laws are broken.

As a sanctuary city, words are not enough.

This is an opportunity for our city to ensure its residents are given due process and respectful treatment.

Our city needs your strong leadership now more than ever.

If this is not possible, then what is the purpose of Beaverton declaring itself a sanctuary city at all?

Thank you for your time.

All right.

Next up, uh Angelique.

She's online.

Okay.

Online.

Okay.

Can you promote him?

Can you hear me, Mayor?

Yes, please.

All right, I'm sorry I can't find my uh I can't find my video button on it, but that's okay.

You don't need to see me.

Uh uh Dave Honeycutt.

I am a land use attorney in King City.

I represent a number of the property owners on Cooper Mountain uh here today to express concerns with item 6.4 on your consent agenda.

Uh the uh staff proposal to update your engineering and design uh manual for street widths in Cooper Mountain.

There are a number of concerns that uh that those of us that work uh on the development side have with this proposal.

Uh we're not we're certainly not asking the council to uh to stop the proposal, just asking for a little additional time and first uh for uh the direction to work with staff uh uh to uh uh to work with the engineers uh on the uh for the property owners and uh and on the development side to make the to make necessary changes that I think will increase the housing uh units that uh that the city wants to build in Cooper Mountain.

The staff memo has some inconsistencies uh with the proposed cross sections, and really the what the ordinance uh what the proposed ordinance tries to do or resolution is establish uh new cross sections in the engineering and design manual that are specific to Cooper Mountain.

There are inconsistencies between the memo and what the uh what the proposed changes will result in.

The streets that are being proposed, for example, your collector streets are actually wider uh under the proposal by 12 feet, uh, which is significant than the arterials.

Uh the width, the the width, which is uh which is significant when combined with the significant natural resource areas that exist on Cooper Mountain and are really uh off not completely off limits, but severely limited on the foreign development will greatly reduce the buildable land that you have uh up there, and it will require projects that we're afraid won't pencil.

Uh that means not that means either less or no housing, which doesn't serve uh uh serve any of us uh well at all.

The housing should remain the priority.

Uh the maintenance costs by by requiring such large streets, both uh actually all of the proposed streets, but your arterials and collectors uh particularly the maintenance cost of the city will be significant.

Uh you'll have to raise your SDCs to cover the increased maintenance cost.

Uh and of course the construction cost for all the projects up there will also increase significantly to offset the cost to construct the street.

So this is gonna cost the city significantly more to maintain, it will cost the builders more to build.

Uh and in the end, I think what you'll end up with is either projects that won't pencil uh or projects that the public doesn't want, both of which are concerning.

So we just asked uh we just asked the council to uh direct staff to work uh with uh with engineers uh and the and the property owners and the builders out there give us a little more time, and I'm sure we can work something out.

Thank you, Mayor.

Awesome.

Thank you so much.

Uh Markman Mayor.

Congratulations, new council president Duggar.

And the rest of the city council.

My name is Mark Ferrah.

I'm with Metropolitan Land Group, and I'm here this evening uh on a similar note uh of your of the prior uh commenter, Mr.

Honeycutt.

Um Cooper Mountain is coming to together, it's coming together nicely.

Alyssa uh on city staff is doing a great job uh working this plan through.

We've just got one thing here uh on your consent agenda that we're requesting you pull from the consent agenda and ask staff to take another look uh as Dave said at the cross sections uh of the streets is the primary concern that we're seeing in this proposal that you have on the consent agenda.

And we feel like the expansion of the cross sections of streets at this point is frankly just unwarranted.

It would be nice to have larger sidewalks and larger bike paths on both sides of the roads, but we feel that the successful story that we see in South Cooper Mountain, where Metropolitan Land Group has been a partner developing lands there, as well as other areas, other communities around, is a perfect way to look at how we can continue the success up on top on Cooper Mountain and uh obviously down in the lowlands of Cooper Mountain as well.

So we just request respectfully that you pull that item from the consent agenda, direct staff to take another look at those cross sections and find out a way where we can continue the success that we have in South Cooper Mountain, not put more burdens on the developers and on the builders and the resulting costs that are gonna naturally transfer through to not only the home buyers in Cooper Mountain, but also the cities, as Mr.

Honeycutt um commented on, uh the additional uh maintenance that's gonna have to happen with additional infrastructure that the net is currently in those regulations.

So, again, respectfully request that that get pulled and please direct staff to meet with builders and developers and try to see if we can right size this.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Uh Mimi, I see is online.

All right.

Mimi, go ahead.

Good evening.

Uh my name is Mimi Dickas with AKS Engineering.

I'm primarily here in support of uh the testimony from Mike Ferrar and uh Dave Honeycutt if you if council had any questions.

Uh I did submit a detailed letter to staff outlining specifics on the concerns with cross sections.

Um there's elements that have been introduced, like a frontage zone, uh, which is between the back of sidewalk and the right-of-way, which is unmaintained, uh, undefined land that we don't understand the purpose of, and it's it's using a great deal of additional land that could be put into production for homes, uh, commercial uses, any other land uses that you want across the district.

Uh as Mr.

Honeycutt said, the cross sections for the collectors are very wide relative to arterials.

Um, a component of that is that it's a continuous center turn and landscape median.

That landscape median is going to be a long-term cost to the city.

I know council is sensitive to cost budgetary concerns and infrastructure is uh a significant responsibility and cost burden for the city long term.

And a landscape median is nice, but it expands the distance, pedestrians have to use to get to across the street.

Um, and that landscape median has an extensive cost to it for maintenance.

So, similar to Mr.

Honeycutt and Mr.

Ferrar, we'd like uh to continue to work with staff to refine these uh cross sections before they are adopted by your council.

Appreciate your time this evening.

Thank you.

Paul go ahead, Paul.

We can.

Hi, my name is Paul Selke.

I'm also kind of along.

I'm also at the AKS Engineering Forestry with Mimi.

I'm also kind of here to support and answer technical questions from the engineering perspective as I'm a licensed engineer.

So kind of reiterate this I bring that mark and maybe and Mr.

Hannicott said that uh the cross sections are very wide.

Especially uh they create challenges on a steep slope like Cooper Mountain.

So I am here to support and answer your technical questions.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

That uh concludes our public comment for today.

We are going to move into presentation.

Agenda Bill 26001, uh, Washington County Department of Housing Services.

Everyone hear me?

Okay, I'll try that again.

Uh good evening.

I'm I'm Chad Stover.

I'm the community services and homelessness program manager for the city of Beaverton, and I'm here tonight to introduce um to my colleagues from Washington County who are going to conduct the Washington County Annual Report for the Department of Housing Services.

With me is Molly Rogers, she's the executive director of housing services, and Liz Morris, who's the rent assistant division manager.

So without further ado, I will turn it over to them for their presentation.

Good evening, Mayor Beatty and the counselors.

For the record, my name is Molly Rogers, and I'm the executive director of the housing authority of Washington County and the Department of Housing Services.

I use sheher pronouns.

We are really honored to join you tonight.

Talk about the accomplishments we've responding to the housing and homelessness crisis.

Our dozens of community-based organizations.

We have a lot of slides and information, so I'm hoping if there's questions, we can wait till the very end.

Next slide.

As a department of housing services, we envision a Washington County where everyone has an affordable home with the supports and opportunities each of us needs to thrive.

Our programs are dedicated to serving our mission, which is to create pathways out of homelessness, promote housing stability, and invest in affordable communities for Washington County and our residents.

And it's important that we ground this work with the people whose lives we've changed as a result of these new housing and shelter opportunities.

Here is Jasmine.

Jasmine fled her home with two young kids.

And um, and she had just a teeny bit left in her bank account two years ago.

A lot of times people, when they're in their trenches, they want to give up.

Perseverance can get you where you need to be.

Really highlighting the impact we have in achieving our mission.

Overall, we served over 20,000 people across all of our business lines.

For context, that is about the size of the population of Sherwood.

We also invested in 26 capital projects, really changing the infrastructure of our community, each in varying stages of financing and development in the last year.

And I did bring with me our a copy of our capital projects report that I'll leave here if you want to take a look of how we are changing how Washington County looks each day.

Also shows how geographically diverse our affordable housing and homeless system of care is becoming.

So I won't read all the these out loud, but I do want to make a note that the vast majority of those who are served were supported in long-term rental assistance in permanent housing.

So that's really truly successful.

That's the truly the success we're trying to see here in our community.

The first component of our mission is creating pathways out of homelessness.

And I just want to applaud your mayor and all of you who have really taken this up and been on this journey with us and create and opening your first year-round shelter that we all got to celebrate not too long ago.

Truly a credible milestone for Beaverton.

My appreciation for all of you.

Last year, Tiger was really the first one out of the gate to open an access center where people can go for showers, meals, services, navigation assistance, and as well as it will serve as an overflow for inclement weather.

We're hoping to have all three three more being planned in Cornelius, Hillsborough, and Beaverton.

And of course, our housing liaison program connects those who are experiencing homelessness identified by other systems, such as health care or community corrections to housing and other supports.

And last year they assisted 682 households.

Last year we funded and maintained more than 400 shelter beds across Washington County.

As you recall, you opened, as I mentioned already, you opened your first year-round shelter here, as well as one in Tigered.

We found Hillsborough just broke ground on its own first year-round permanent shelter for adults and couples.

These shelters are already making a difference.

Just in one year, over 700 individuals moved from shelter to permanent housing.

Projects last year, one with a focus on mental health stabilization, the other focused on recovery with close coordination with Washington County's newly opened.

That's really exciting.

With that, I'm going to turn it over to Liz.

Thank you, Molly.

Good evening, everyone.

As Molly mentioned, my name is Liz Moore, she, her pronouns, and I'm the rental assistance division manager.

I'm going to transition into some of our housing stability.

Next slide, please.

Starting us off with our rental assistance.

What we are proud to do not only to serve so many people, we help impact economic with having partners, nearly 1,500 landlords to provide that rental assistance throughout the county.

89 million dollars are spent annually on those rental assistance, and with these funds, we are supporting over 5300 families with long-term rental support.

800 are being supported with short-term support.

So hopefully they can not get into the long-term need as they just might have that moment where they need some assistance.

Of these 1,917 of those families out of the 5300 are supported right here in Beaverton.

And 2,000 over 2,000 households with eviction preventions were received assistance so they can continue to live in their homes without having to go into our long-term assistance system.

We're also proud of our Veterans Affairs Support of Housing Program where we partner with the VA to serve nearly 250 veteran families within Washington County, and over 30% of those veteran families are served here in Beaverton.

We do have some federal cuts that we're continue to monitor around this, like the sunset of one of the long-term rental assistance programs, the emergency housing voucher program, is ending nearly four years earlier than we were told.

Next slide, please.

While we still have funding constraints, we are really appreciative of the local investments for that are more critical than ever.

As the government is uh recently decided to sunset that program, the emergency housing voucher program.

We look to blending multiple sources so we can help support our community in many different ways.

We also have those landlord particip uh partnerships with the housing choice voucher.

It is a huge large housing ecosystem that provides guaranteed payments to landlords so they can support for other people who might be in their properties not receiving rent assistance, and again helping that economic support through the community.

Next slide, please.

Um, we're gonna transition a little bit into some of our affordable and supportive communities.

Next slide.

Um, this map shows the spread of multiple different highlights of shelters, access centers, transitional housing properties from the regional affordable portable housing bond, and county or owned affordable housing.

As you can see, some of the housing that is reflected right here in Beaverton is spread throughout Washington County, and we're proud of those communities that are uh being supported.

Next slide, please.

Speaking of the Metro Affordable Housing Bond, uh we were allocated at Washington County over 192 million dollars, and we are proud to say that we are on track to exceed our goal with 500 and 958 homes open or underway, and we're wrapping up those funds from that bond.

So we're seeing that's been a long journey for us and for all of you as well.

Um the bond spans 12 communities throughout Washington County, and the communities like Altura Project, which is located in Southwest Beaverton.

And many residents like Jasmine, who you heard about her story, are housed in these new communities.

Next slide, please.

Well, it's important to build new housing, it's also really important for us to preserve the housing that's already here, and so we are excited that we are trying to invest appropriately into our aging properties.

So the Affordable Housing Preservation Portfolio Rehabilitation Project renovated almost 600 affordable homes across 10 properties, investing 113 million dollars back into the community.

This includes Holly Tree, which is also located here in West Beaverton.

Affordable home ownership via our section 18, it's a HUD term disposition of federal funded public housing, went underway.

So after decades of federal underfunding programs like public housing, the housing authority of Washington County made the difficult decision to launch the Section 18 disposition uh disposition initiative, which had approved in December of 2023.

This is giving the opportunity for those residents to uh purchase their home, which we did have several home buyers from that initiative, um, and those who did not were given a protection voucher so they can continue receiving assistance, and we're going to be investing that money back into portfolios and the community from the sales.

Next slide, please.

As we go in, that there's a lot of breeding of finances through Washington County Department of Housing.

Um, we are going to give a one-slide overview of it.

As you can tell, it's probably going to be really comprehensive.

So, next slide, please.

As you can see, we have many different funding resources from federal, state, the regional, and the local level with all different reporting requirements.

So we navigate a solid foundation through these different changes with the federal funds that might be waiting for resolutions to come through and understanding how that funding is going to be impacted.

We are continuing to leverage provide services with those flexible local resources where we can.

Sorry, you have to leave now.

Full disclosure, I did come to Washington from City of, but I'm thrilled to be here.

It's been two years.

Very, very thrilled, very grateful.

I'll put it that way.

Also, we have four advisory bodies that guide and advise our policies and budget recommendations.

We're grateful for them.

And we now host we've been hosting several community listening sessions to learn more about the unmet need in this community.

And just wanted to do a quick thank you to you all because we have done one of them.

Another significant and notable collaboration is with our city partners and first responders.

So we have our liaison program like Chad that really connects all these various resources with other systems that were where you are experiencing where you find people are experiencing into the systems.

And we look forward to future collaborations to open an access center in Beaverton.

What's really next?

This is really this is capturing our our point in time of what we did in one year.

So future is really at uh this next slide is showing that we have made tremendous impact and progress, but there is still need.

But I'm not gonna go into each of these, but just indicating that the metrics are showing the need to be able to continue investing.

So what's on the horizon is a lot of uh as Louise already mentioned, a lot of federal uncertainty, um, early sunsetting of programs, lots of um uh uh dynamic uh changes we see all the time, and it really for us has been uh uh this past year a moment of really understanding that it's about our local partnerships and investments that's gonna make all the difference more than ever.

So for us to be responsive to these changing and how we navigate and align all of our resources as much as possible.

And our homelessness work, we're gonna re a local implementation plan 2.0, so that's working with various stakeholders, getting input, thinking about how we are moving from a launch up essentially a build build-up system to now what is gonna make sense in terms of do we have the right uh investments in terms of permanent strategies?

So, and then also we have our two transitional housing projects underway.

Cornell road recovery is slated to open this next fall, and we are gonna be completing our final two affordable housing bond projects with those gonna be closing up.

Cornell uh road recovery is slated to open this fall, and we are going to be completing our final two affordable housing bond projects with those gonna be closing up just a reminder of who we're really serving through all these resources.

This is a this is Pierre who's who transitioned to full self-sufficiency and just five.

Without this hope, I would not have been able to get where I am.

Served by shelter, temporary rental assistance, and career connections, demonstrating that these time-limited resources can really make a difference of someone to stability.

So we'd be happy to take it awesome.

Well, I'm glad you're here in Beaver Tim is how we pronounce it.

Uh thank you for the presentation.

I do want to know how Kim Marshall makes it into every slide deck the county does.

So is she just around a lot?

Oh, wait, oh, there she is in the back here as well.

So I I would say um just thank you.

Thank you for the report.

I know this this work is challenging with the federal government cutting so many resources for HUD.

Um and in partnership with what we're doing with the SHS funding and affordable housing.

I just I really worry about the future of our county when we look at these numbers and uh how we're going to manage over the next decade.

As somebody with young kids, I really worry that we're creating a region where young people aren't going to be able to move back into.

Um, and I think this is a major piece of it.

So I I thank you for the presentation.

There's no asking it of us tonight.

Um, I appreciate that.

Um, the work you are doing is very difficult.

So thank you for joining us this evening.

Um counselor Hartmeyer Prigg.

Thank you.

Thank you for being with us this evening.

I was I had a question about like eviction prevention, or you know, like when someone is nearing eviction or they need rental assistance.

Is there a way or how does that process work, right?

Are they able to get assistance early enough to even keep them out of the pipeline?

Or does that assistance kind of come in like the final minute?

So I will just say has eventually eviction prevention really did ramp up with COVID resources unprecedented amount of resources because there was an eviction moratorium that did expire, and then there are thousands of households who were unable to pay them.

Those programs have essentially those federal investments have essentially been deployed.

Those were very much proactive and preventative, and so we were able, we've been um able to supplement some of that with SHS money.

Um, but we haven't been able to be at the full level of what we were seeing with federal investment.

So we have had to do a little bit more triaging, a little bit more getting to the folks who are a little more at the brink of eviction.

Obviously, those folks can go and they call the um community action organization has a hotline to talk about their eviction proceedings.

Obviously, we want to catch people before the um so there are resources for the folks as well.

But I'm just just providing a little bit of context of um how we were able to do a lot more with and during the time of COVID and eviction prevention as a core part of our homeless system.

We want to have that as a base base core part of our um of the essentially the system.

We don't want people to experience homelessness.

Yeah, yeah, thank you.

Uh didn't the county commission just recently reinstate some of these funds.

Can you tell us a little bit about where that funding came from?

So that came that's also supportive housing services resources.

Um trying to encapsulate a lot of the budgeting challenges we have with SHS, essentially it's a very volatile income tax stream that we face that we faced a 15% reduction last year from the forecast that we had put out in budgets.

So we had to make shifts in real time.

That's why there were some reductions in eviction prevention.

But then at the end of the year, what we do is we recalibrate our spending ability and what we what essentially we create carryover carry-forward funds that turns into one-time only funds term, and we are able to kind of reinvest back up into eviction prevention.

So we're trying to carefully calibrate our ongoing services with what um we expect to get from Metro, but we're gonna always have a little bit of some, we're gonna have to create some um budgeting cushion so that we don't have to go through a 15% reduction again.

Well, and just for uh a future, I mean the SHS uh levy is scheduled for five more years, so we're gonna be facing a very similar cliff that we did with COVID if we can't figure out how to do that.

And I think what's challenging uh from my perspective is I understand the budgeting perspective and why we're doing that.

And a lot of times some eviction prevention is intended to be one or two or three times use, but uh that's really challenging, I think, for community action and members of our community to wait until the budget recalibration to see how much money is left in that pot.

Counselor Hussen Thank you for the presentation.

I think this is a bit of a follow-up to what Counselor Hartmeyer prank was asking.

Um I I've been working a lot with the immigrant community that's been impacted, particularly right now this last few months, and so we're seeing evictions go up in our community quite a bit.

Um, and community auction does not have funds for these families.

And maybe you don't either, but can you talk a little bit about what resources are available, if any, and how we can be thinking for that if you have thoughts?

So we we actually part of the additional um funds that we were able to recalibrate is trying to make sure we're capturing folks who have been economically impacted by a variety of federal attacks, including so we will um we haven't been able to get those straight into contracts quite yet, but we are gonna we're working on that as soon as we possibly can.

Um households can be immediately the current networks of providers some additional but we have to make sure there's still an access to the supportive housing services measure.

It's not a special carve out, but um, but obviously if families are affected to you know have housing instability is there a future where I know community auction is really dependent on a community member calling, right?

And like having to advocate, and these are typically families who are already kind of living on the edge.

Is there a future where we fund like similar to what we did in COVID, like more of a landlord reimbursement?

I imagine this is just gonna continue, and I know we don't have money, so I'm not gonna act like we have a lot of money, but if we did, is there a future that looks like that at all?

But that's what we're trying to roll out is what we call a housing resolution fund, which is gonna be for immediate needs, uh helping people more like a flex fund, but help it's like a eviction prevention that we can get out to our 25 like Central Cultural and other providers that work with those families however they last question or comment is there just a way for you all to share some of this with the city council?

Because I feel like and maybe Chad, I can ask ask you.

Like I just feel like you know, I'm getting these phone calls um from the community, and we're trying to send people in the right direction, and I don't really know where.

Um, and I imagine the others are too.

And and then you're like, hey, call community action, and they're like, well, they didn't, you know.

So it's it's been a bit of a round robin, and so any resource support you can send to us um so that all of us have it, I think would be really appreciated.

If I may also encourage to continue to um ask people to contact 211 hotline, we inform two on one hotline when our like resources open, like a wait list um or other, and I know a lot of other community service providers as well.

So, in addition just to calling out one of our service providers, I would also ensure that because sometimes it's uh maybe faith-based organizations are reporting if they have like a one-time fund or opportunity, but that might be one other resource if you haven't been giving that to your um constituents.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Counselor Tipnon.

Thank you.

Um back to slide 21.

It just had the need for housing support remains high.

Uh I was just curious about the numbers here, and I know that point and time counts are just by nature difficult to do.

Um first question I had was when was the 2025 point in time count done?

January.

Uh point in time in January.

Okay.

Okay, so we're just about due to do it again.

2025, and they do it every other year.

Got it.

I wish it was every year.

Um so I understand that the in the point in time count, sheltered homelessness increased by over 150 people and unsheltered homelessness remain steady.

Um, and then right underneath it, there's this awesome figure about over 3,000 um people that were served in shelter or received outreach last year, of an increase of 800 over 800 people.

So I guess what I'm looking for is insight or just your theories on how we can see the increases in folks that are receiving support and also see those numbers of unsheltered homelessness remaining steady.

So just more people are in within Washington County are falling into homelessness, or is it that people are just migrating into the county?

I know that's it's very um migratory in nature to to not have housing.

So what are your what are your thoughts on that?

I think Kim Marshall also have our own thoughts, but I would just say it generally point-in-time pounds, uh at least for the sheltered homelessness is really a reflection of the system you're building.

People you can find and numerate and count.

And so that is a reflection, I think, of the success of us being able to building out so um that I think is that's a success story.

So I don't think of these things, uh, these numbers showing that all of a sudden there's more people coming into the system than we are tracking those sort of numbers.

What was really indicative to us was the sh on sheltered count remains steady, and that was still very low.

A big it actually was a reduction of about 35%.

So that to us is we're we're catching people.

Just an idea for the the next go-around of this is it would be really helpful to see a visualization of that, just a chart of what those point in time counts have looked like over time, especially post-COVID.

Um yeah, just an idea.

And that we'll get that for you for sure.

Thank you.

I I will just uh comment on the uh the wishing the point in time was every year.

Is it is a massive undertaking that takes out so much of our service providers, and you know, as at Virginia Garcia, I participated in point in time, and I would really encourage uh elected officials to go out and kind of see the tedious work, but it also it is it is often uh unrepresented of like what the numbers actually look like, and it's a really flawed system that we're basing a lot of our stuff off of.

Counselor Kimmy.

I think uh counselor um Tipnon asks similar question because when I ran for uh city council three and a half years ago, the number used to be 817.

Then last time I Mitchell was here, they said it was um 830 something something.

Now I see 915.

So somehow we're with all the housing that we're providing, our homelessness population is growing.

I just learned that it's tedious work to find the people to count.

Um, but we are throwing not throwing, but that we are investing money into the homelessness uh trying to solve the problem and shelter, but numbers are keep increasing, and as you just mentioned, that there's many people entering the system or the program, but then not many people are exiting.

Uh so and then we worry about possible bond uh SHS bond coming along.

Uh it's just worry.

Uh what what's your plan or is there any way to um uh I I don't think we can solve the issue, but we're giving much help as possible, but not many people are exiting the program and beyond their two feet.

So um what are your thoughts on that?

There are hundreds of people who are exiting every day.

But there really is um progress that is happening and truly ending hard to create these kind of moments in time and look at a larger trend line, but generally someone who is out in what we know have been camping out for a long time in pod village and are more likely to go to the village, or they might need different types of they're still considered homeless, but they're getting served.

So then you kind of move through someone's gonna have a different journey, and maybe they need transitional housing for two years, they're still gonna be counted as homeless, but they're being served.

So it's it's it's it's it is complicated to show the impact.

It it is very much a qualitative and a quantitative kind of element that we do need to track.

Um like if someone is seeking shelter, do they have a place to go?

Right now we're showing yes, they have a place to go to that's these are some of the other indicators we're we're gonna really look at.

Obviously, there's a huge uh challenge we will find of support of housing services.

We've invested uh six projects um that we would need to find uh places for and and there are people in our community uh who are on fixed incomes who can't keep up with these rent increases.

So we're gonna need to continue best in affordable communities, especially with people on fixed income that are here already.

And I just want to say yeah, okay thank you.

Um one other question I have is um we have a lot of a senior population in Beaverton, um, and they tell me that they have to wait five to seven years, possibly ten years to get into affordable housing unit.

So some of the advisors that they're getting is that why don't you just go into homeless shelter?

You got a fast tracking of six months, you can you will be in somehow offered uh um affordable housing.

So just I have a concern with the people who's looking for to get into affordable housing as a senior citizens, and they just cannot get in, have to wait five to seven years.

So how's the process that works?

Our current wait list, but let's just to be clear that's for our federal funds.

We have to have wait list that we open up, and we just recently opened up our unfortunately we've been not given additional appropriation in our housing choice voucher program to be able to move more federal appropriations the federal versus the council.

But we've also ramped up with the supportive housing services measure.

We have invested uh two over two thousand regional long-term rent assistance vouchers, essentially it's local um vouchers that uh has been one of the highest amount of uh vouchers that we've uh any of the that's been able to really move more quickly folks who've been able to add assistance, but that's generally for people who uh have to have a nexus to homelessness yes, and so with our recent of the project-based wait list that was open across the county, um, it was uh zoned for each jurisdiction.

So if somebody who's living in Beaverton only wanted to live in Beaverton, they could sign up just for that wait list.

Um and they will be open again coming up, uh, and that will be forever open, and people will just confirm.

We had about 4500 people in the week uh across all of the wait lists.

So some signed up for just one and some signed up for all four of the zones in Washington County.

Um, and we know that that's not reaching out the entire need because we're seeing that uh across uh the system, so making sure that there's that access.

Um but what we do have with our project-based vouchers and some of these affordable housing is when we've been able to partner with like the city of Beaverton on some of the city of Beaverton's metro funded um projects, uh like the Mary Ann, we are able to put project based vouchers in there.

So that's affordable housing where we only have maybe eight units there, but then the rest of the building is low income, so then house like it's it's blending that ability and that access.

Um and with that, we definitely wouldn't encourage um to your statement.

I do want to say that we don't encourage people to feel that there is one way to go because a lot of the times it's about the placements.

So if we'd only have X amount of placements left, um, we're not ramping up.

Um, and people may not still meet those definitions for those services, and then they might have uh put themselves into a place where they thought that was the solution, and it's it's very complicated.

Thank you, thank you.

I had two quick follow-ups.

Um do you guys work with the McKinney Vento programs at all?

The school districts okay.

No, not the school districts, sorry.

That's a it's a we we we do the continuum of care, which is McKinney Vento, but McKinney Vento also funds the schools.

So has is there any collaboration between your work and like understanding what the districts are saying is happening and because they have numbers, I know that because I can ask them.

And we do, we do collaborate.

Um, we don't have a lot of blended programs at this time, but we do definitely connect on um a regular basis um and see where their program overlap so that we can connect.

So exactly for that reason for for data and um coordination of what we're seeing in the schools.

Okay, I just imagine like not that you want to do more point in times, but it'd be it'd be curious to do a McKinney even like just to check with the school districts.

One more question.

But they do come here, they come to your homeless meeting.

I see them in the building when they're doing it.

They are coordinating with McKinney Vento.

So I I these the county might be a little bit different, but they're here all the time working with our staff.

I see them in the building once or twice a week.

I attend a regular meeting with the schools.

Okay, but I mean at the county level, the same level.

I would imagine we would have the same level of coordination, but thank you, Chad, for attending those meetings.

Um for your shelters and access centers and transitional housing.

Um I know that there's been um ice activity in Portland shelters or centers.

Uh something.

Have you have has any of that happened here in Beaverton or Washington County to our knowledge?

I we have had ICE activity in the I knew that one, but the other one.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you for um coming today.

Uh I also do want to point out that Beaverton is hosting the no place to grow old documentary on Sunday that is specifically talking about the aging population as the fastest growing homeless population.

So I'd encourage council to attend that and learn more, which is why the cities had such a focus on a like a senior housing as we're we're going forward.

It's our number one growing population and the one that we're finding the most challenging with.

So thank you for joining us tonight.

I know the work is hard and challenging, and please um, you know, I talk to you guys often, but reach out anytime we could be helpful.

And if you find yourself with excess money, Beaverton is a great place to spend it.

Thank you.

Appreciate your time tonight.

All right.

Uh council, we're uh Council President, your first official act will be the consent agenda.

And if you would pull 6.4 agenda bill 26006, so we can talk about the Cooper Mountain update separate from the consent agenda, please.

Uh make a motion to approve the consent agenda, obviously without 6.4 agenda bill 2026.

Second.

It's been moved uh by council president, seconded by counselor Husson.

Any discussion on tonight's consent.

Yes, Mayor.

Uh Councilor Teeter, please.

Uh so I know we'll talk about the mountain cross sections in in a minute, but there is a lot of other there are a lot of other items on this consent agenda that are incredibly meaningful.

Uh like our federal litigation framework that will allow us to join more lawsuits more quickly against federal overreach and harmful actions.

We've already joined two this year successfully, and uh there may be the opportunity to join more with this framework.

Um there are other uh transportation items here on the consent agenda, like crosswalk improvements along the West Side Trail, our traffic calming update, and signing a downtown loop IGA that'll keep that moving forward.

Uh there's a lot that's really good here that can often go under the radar being on the consent agenda.

Um I just want to celebrate it.

So thank you, staff who've worked on this.

Uh with that, we'll please call the roll.

Mayor Beatty.

Yes.

Councillor Tibnon.

Yes.

Councillor Teeter?

Yes.

Counselor Kimmy?

Yes.

Councillor Hassan.

Yes.

Counselor Hartmeyer Prigg, yes.

Council President Duggar.

Yes.

Seven yes, zero no consent calendar passes.

Awesome.

Uh I think council, given the amount of testimony we've had about the design, our conversations with housing.

Um, I really take stock, you know, Mimi that testified tonight, served on our planning commission for quite a long time and rarely interjects with the city.

And when she does, I definitely take stock of that.

And of course, uh everyone's testimony tonight, but you know, Metropolitan Land Group as well has been an ongoing partner with the city, and there are times where they have won arguments with us, and there are times when they have not won arguments with us.

Um but I think in the the spirit of more housing, understanding a little bit more.

And I just, you know, there's a lot of times when it comes to our rules, like undergrounding, we decide when it doesn't benefit us, we don't do it.

If you look at the Minlo Street Project, which was the largest investment sidewalks the city had done in 20 years, we could only afford to do one side of the street.

And so um I don't I don't feel super comfortable moving forward tonight without a few more conversations on this topic.

And I would like us to uh send it back to staff and bring it back in a couple weeks, but I'm open uh to hear what the council has to say as well.

Counselor Duggar.

Oh, I'm sorry, we in a minute.

Yep, Counselor Duggar.

Um yeah, I'm a little uh uh two things.

I I have in my when we had a briefing on this, I was pretty comfortable with it.

I I think the testimony is moving me a little bit, but not a whole lot.

So I I think we've got to make this pretty quick.

I don't want this to fall into a black hole of like discussions back and forth.

So I can support a temporary pause.

I think I think uh the mayor's comments are reasonable.

I think the testimony was reasonable.

This needs to be wrapped up pretty quickly though, because we you know I don't want this to fall into a situation where in general this council's been very supportive of bike imped infrastructure, particularly in in green uh green spaces where we we we know it's going to kind of be costly and and stuff like that, but um I could support a temporary pause if if uh if the council would go would go along with that.

Counselor Teter, did I skip you?

Were you on this topic?

Okay.

Counselor Huston.

Yeah, I would be inclined to want to hear from staff before we went that route personally.

Um I totally acknowledge all the testimony that we've gotten, and I hear that.

I'd like to hear staff's perspective before we were to completely table it.

Uh Counselor Teter.

I was gonna say something similar to Councillor Hussen.

Um City Manager, when should we call staff up during this conversation or how should we handle that if if at least two of us would like some more information or have ask a couple questions?

Yeah, the concierge service here turning on my mic.

Um, we are prepared to provide you a staff report and some background uh leaning into this conversation, and if council still feels like that we need to do some more work offline, we're happy to do that.

But I would recommend that you hear from staff this evening.

Well, bring them on up.

Let's do it.

I'll follow up with some questions afterwards.

Okay, good evening.

Kara Hall, Assistant City Transportation Engineer.

Alyssa Maxwell, uh, Capital Planning Project Manager.

Okay.

We did put together just a few quick slides here, if that's okay, to provide some background context for you, and then we're happy to take questions after that, if that works for all of you.

Okay.

Next slide.

Okay.

So the proposed cross-sections in front of you were developed to support goals identified in the Cooper Mountain Community Plan and reflect what we heard from council and community members about priorities for Cooper Mountain.

Um cross sections also reflect flee feedback that we heard as we completed the update for the engineering design manual that's in front of you.

Um that included a 30-day public review period from November 20th to December 21st with opportunity for review and to provide input.

Um the opportunity to do so was shared with interested parties, uh, both that followed the updates on the engineering design manual and Cooper Mountain communication channels as well.

Um during that time we received one written comment and had conversations with agency partners, including THPRD, TV F and R, um, as well as some of the stakeholders working on potential development in the area.

That's all summarized in the public review summary that was included in your packets this evening.

We have heard the concerns documented in the public review summary and shared this evening, and we understand that there's a cost associated with providing more right away.

Um and because of that, we've developed these facilities to achieve multiple goals, not just transportation specific goals within the community plan to ensure that next slide.

This investment benefits everyone.

So goals and priorities being supported by these proposed cross-sections include transportation goals focused on creating safe, comfortable, connected facilities for people traveling within Cooper Mountain, as well as providing space for large, healthy trees that provide shade and support the city's climate goals.

These cross-sections have also been developed in coordination with THPRD to support the Plan Trails Network in Cooper Mountain.

Um staff have also developed constrained and restricted cross-sections, which do narrow the required right-of-way in areas where we need to protect our natural resources because we know that's an important goal for Cooper Mountain as well.

Um next slide, please.

So just a quick overview of kind of how we're achieving all of these goals with these proposed cross-sections.

So first we have our separated bike and pedestrian facilities, which provide safe and comfortable space that can accommodate things like e-bikes needing to pass people at much higher speeds, and families that may be riding together in this area.

This is also an area where we made changes based on feedback that we heard from THPRD through this process.

Um and that included locating the bicycle and pedestrian facilities behind the landscape strip and directly next to each other because our collectors are where um our regional trail follows that alignment.

So the hope with this change was that this would allow for these facilities to function as that regional trail as well.

So if that were to be the case, we'd be eliminating the need to provide that trail along properties on our collectors.

So hoping that we could achieve multiple benefits there as well.

And the eight-foot landscape strip that's shown in these cross sections was developed to support the larger trees that are needed to provide shade and achieve the goal of 40% tree canopy.

This also allows us to eliminate some of the requirements for tree plantings on private property to meet that goal, moving that into the public right-of-way.

So while Cooper Mountain is a green field, meaning we have fewer constraints to work within and providing us an opportunity to build the transportation system that we want, we recognize that there are still situations where our ideal cross-sections may not work and where we need to adapt.

So to achieve that, we have developed the constrained and recruit restricted cross-sections.

Those do narrow the right-of-way while still providing facilities for people driving, walking, and biking.

And those can be applied in specific areas, specifically where we have natural resources without any additional process or need to navigate our design exemption process as that development occurs.

And then I will just note that that design exemption process does remain in place, and that allows us to work with folks as individual development comes in and to consider the constraints and the needs on a case-by-case basis.

So if development comes in and we need to explore kind of further adjusting that, that design exemption process exists and allows us to have that conversation.

Lastly, we did compare these proposed cross-sections to what development's being asked to provide in our neighboring cities and found that these cross-sections are largely consistent, specifically with what was being considered as part of River Terrace 2.0 just across Schultz Ferry.

So with that, I'm happy to take any questions.

Okay, thank you.

There's a question we received about the frontage that's set aside on each of these designs.

Can you talk about what that two foot or three-foot frontage would actually be used for?

Yeah, so that frontage is intended to provide a number of benefits.

So that three and a half foot space that's shown there in the community access, that is a cross-section that will be used in those mixed-use areas or where we might have that ground floor retail.

That's intended to provide space for those businesses to be interact able to interact with the public right-away without infringing on our pedestrian space.

So that could be things like a bench or a table outside a cafe or signs.

So that space is there.

If there's not active uses right along the ground floor, we may not need all of that frontage.

Okay, thank you.

There's another question we received about the medians and for the designs that include a median.

Would that require a median be built along the full extent where it's unconstrained, or would it be median where necessary, I think was the language of the question we received?

Yeah.

So that is a big change in our constrained and restricted cross-sections.

That median does go away.

So that is one area where we do reduce when we're in those areas of natural resources.

In other locations, the consistent language that we have in this is consistent with how we've approached medians and center turn lanes historically with our street cross-sections.

And we do consider that as development comes in.

So if those turn lanes are not needed and we don't think that's a future consideration we might want to make, we can consider addressing that and having that conversation at that time.

Okay.

That helps.

And then the design, Mayor, did you have something you wanted to add there?

I just have a just kind of a follow-up question on this because your opening comment was that a lot of this was intended to be used like instead of like trails, and we had worked with THPRD.

Whose SDCs will be paid for it then?

If it's intended to be a trail, is this where park SDCs are going?

So we um the transportation SDC that's being proposed for Cooper Mountain, that'll be on the following uh council meeting agenda, and that has a uh accounted for these wider cross sections.

So the cost estimates for projects have been um accounting for the proposed wider cross sections because the bike and pedestrian facilities are a city goal, not just a THPRD goal.

So in areas if um we were not building a cross-section like this, and the trail is gonna go off street and they're gonna have a separate right-of-way for trail, then that would be part of the THPRD um funding plan.

But when it's going to be part of street right-of-way, then we're accounting for it in our funding plan.

Um so what that means is that development that builds these wider cross-sections can get additional credits against their SDCs when they're building those larger facilities.

But against RSTCs.

Not the 33% of SDCs represented by the park district.

So we're gonna build infrastructure to save THPRD money why they still collect their full SDCs and we give away credits from RSDC transportation fees here.

Is that fair?

Well, I think I would say not entirely because we do want these facilities.

So we're I mean I don't think it's a matter of want.

It's a matter of we have a special district that represents 33% of the fees, and we both want it.

So how do we reconcile that with what people are telling us that it's gonna drive up housing because they're gonna take their SDCs and spend it somewhere else?

Or are they gonna contribute to lowering the cost of the infrastructure we're trying to build?

Yeah, it's a fair question.

Um I do think the when we looked at the funding plan with THPRD too, their SDCs in this area are going toward the park facilities and things like the big community park.

So there's not a lack of uh park facilities that they would be funding through the SDCs that they collect in that area.

Well, of course they're excited for us to build it and pay for it and they get the benefit.

Sorry, go on.

Okay.

I appreciate that diversion.

I think that was a really important thought thought line to follow follow.

Um got a question about the design variance process.

We've mentioned this a few times for instances when this these exact designs might not be the right fit.

Uh does that process add significant expense to projects or timeline or difficulty getting approved?

What's that look like?

No, so that process is gonna include some documentation about what what's the constraints, what's making it infeasible, what what is kind of driving that need to do deviate from the standard?

Um, how are we meeting the city's goals, policies with what we're proposing instead of the city standard?

Um, and confirming that we are addressing things like safety um with what's being proposed.

Essentially, that's a memo and a form that need to be filled out and signed by the city engineer.

So there's typically conversation with staff as part of that um process, um, but it we are working to make that so that it's not a cumbersome piece to navigate.

Okay, thanks.

I've got one question, then I'll close with my comments.

So if we table this for two weeks for staff to work with the community organizations that have provided some comment, maybe other people too.

What could we expect to change within two weeks?

That feels very fast, but also I want to move fast.

What do you all see for the timeline there?

Yeah, I mean, I think we wouldn't we would appreciate then having some direction from council about which of the goals we would want to reduce out here.

Um we've had we have had the question asked, you know, uh can we only have a sidewalk on one side of the street?

Well, we're that doesn't make sense, right?

So um and we are trying to balance all the goals that we heard through the community plan and through the work that you guys are doing on the transportation system plan.

Um and so with the changes that can be made, we're looking at what what would you want to eliminate?

Um, and so things like the wide wide landscape strips for trees, that's part of the Cooper Mountain community plan that's in the comprehensive plan, so we can't really make that change.

Um eliminating the frontage, making the frontage or setback narrower.

That's probably something that could happen relatively painlessly.

Um if we were gonna make major changes, we would want to know you know which of these facilities are not a priority.

Okay, thank you.

So I'll close my with my comments here.

Uh I shared similar concerns about just the width of the streets with my briefing with staff.

Um I didn't have any great advice for what would change because there's a lot that's really good here, and it is in our uh comprehensive plan and uh community goals for that area.

Um so I would be comfortable supporting this tonight.

Like I hear the public comment.

I think we're doing a lot here, and we're trying to fit a lot in.

I think like the median space with trees and street trees provide some flexibility that we don't have to put on individual properties.

Um the cross-sections include the constraint constraint and risk restrained designs that I think will hope.

Um I do think our timeline moving quickly is really important so that we can get this ahead of developers before a whole bunch of development occurs or want wants to be wants to occur this year.

Um so I would be comfortable approving this tonight if there are changes that council wants to see over the next couple weeks.

Um I could hold off for a couple weeks.

I wouldn't want to go much longer than that.

So I think we need to be very clear tonight with whatever those changes would be.

That's all I've got.

Thank you.

Thank you.

This isn't uh a question for staff.

I'd already put my name in before that.

I just am reflecting back on the five years that I've served on council, and this is we've been working on this the whole time I've been on it, fingerprints all over the thing.

And uh what we've been envisioning and asking of city staff for this area is a lot.

And we have extremely high aspirations across the board of what we're hoping to see here.

Um but I it's the rubber meets the road part of this of we're hearing from the folks that are actually going to be the ones developing it out that our voicing concerns that is the thing that's giving me pause on this.

And uh the pause isn't just like, oh, this is gonna make their jobs harder.

It's is this going to impact our ability to get the houses built, essentially.

Um I I am comfortable with this taking a pause to the uh mayor's first opening comments on this.

Two weeks does sound like what what can you really get to the bottom of in two weeks when it comes to something this complicated?

Um but that's kind of where I'm landing right now.

I'll just add like like you guys asked a good question, like what will we be willing to give up?

I think the only thing in order to reduce the right-of-way would be the medians.

Like I do th I feel like there might be some flexibility there.

Um I obviously want more trees, right?

But like in areas where it makes sense, would I trade off a little bit of that in order to get more housing and more uh affordable housing or or as affordable as possible housing?

That would be the one area I would give you feedback.

Um I want you to hear that you you gave us exactly what we asked for.

So this is not a critique, and I know this is a a challenging conversation, and I really appreciate your points on like we did what you asked.

Um I would remind the council this was very similar with the loop, right?

Like, what did we want?

Everything.

What did it come down to funding?

We had it this to start cutting and moving back.

You know, I'm I'm I'm in my comments about THPRD were not a reflection to you.

It's just a reality of the housing work we've been doing for a long time.

We have special districts that represent very large percent of fees and how we're operating, and we have dwindling uh transportation SDCs to get things done.

Um, you know, when I'm I'm looking at this, it's very ambitious, and I would say the the length or the width of the roads, having extra buffers, those are really really awesome nice to have.

And I for me, um, I I need I if this moves forward, I'm a no vote tonight.

So I'd like a little bit more time because as the champion that gets a lot of housing built, I don't feel comfortable and to go out to our community and say, like this is what I want.

This is exactly what I want, but what do you want and what are you willing to pay for?

Two different things.

And I need a little bit more understanding of the SDCs, how this is coming together to make sure that we're putting the burden in the right place because housing will be built here.

It will be 1.5 million dollar single family homes that could afford the infrastructure that's going in here, and our dreams for affordable housing and middle housing will go right out the window because middle housing will become very expensive housing.

And this is a moment where we can look and ask where can this road have a road diet, where can we bring something a little bit more in line?

So I would appreciate to take a little bit of a pause and go back and look.

But if the council wants to vote, like I'm happy to move forward with a vote tonight as well, but I would vote no.

All right.

I think uh what um I actually was gonna say I'm very comfortable with the way that this plan is.

Um I heard the concern.

I feel like you guys have addressed the concern.

If this council, if if we're going to go back, I hope that we can give really clear direction.

Because I I hear pieces, but I want to make sure we're giving that clear direction.

I mean, I'm comfortable saying please go back and work with some of some of these individuals and stakeholders, but I believe that you are doing probably God's work trying to build something that we want.

Um I want the connected stuff.

I mean, we talk about connected transportation.

So I just I want to ask us to pause for a second and say, is this really what we want to do?

Um, you know, I I support this agenda bill as it is, and I appreciate the feedback that you guys provided.

I think if we're really gonna hold off, I think we really need to be thoughtful about giving the right direction to staff so that they can move forward.

Councilor Hardmeyer Brain.

Thank you.

Um I read the agenda bill, I felt like this is very comprehensive.

Like I, you know, everything to me really makes sense.

And so then starting to see some of the comments coming in.

I was like, did we not talk to the right people?

We did our due diligence.

And so I do struggle a little bit with getting a lot of the last minute.

I mean, even since our meeting has started, we've received you know, um, comments to us, and that's really, really hard.

That puts us in a hard place.

This has been a multi-year project.

Um I especially love the medians because it gets our canopy goals and allows us to build the other housing, right?

Like it means that like you may actually be able to fit in more housing because you took it from the right-of-way.

So, like to me, this is everything we asked for.

And I hear you, it's gonna be extensive.

Um I don't have specific direction on what I could say should come out because I think this is actually reflective of all the the plans, all of the conversations and everything that we've built to kind of get to this moment of the cross section.

Hearing that there's an exception process that you could you know, apply for the variants and and whatnot, like where it makes sense, like I think we would apply that, right?

We would really take into the context because if we're also looking at that kind of green field, right?

It's not that there's a pre-determined road already there that in most places, right?

That we're gonna be working with it.

And so it allows for that exception to be made.

So I um I'm I'm feeling comfortable moving forward as is, and not taking a pause.

And I I um there have been times I think that we've said, Oh, we we heard from people late.

Did we not reach out?

Did we reach out?

I feel like we did our due diligence here, and it's really unfortunate to have so much coming in so late.

And it's not that it doesn't matter, it does matter, and I'm glad to hear it, but I really wish that this could have happened months ago when we were developing the cross sections versus tonight when we're being asked to make a decision, and now it feels like we don't have a good choice ahead of like we would be we would be compromising on all of the things that we said we wanted in this plan, I think if we were to pause at this point.

That's so that's where I'm at.

Counselor Kimmy.

Um I'm for pause.

Um just to talk to the developers to what could be compromised and what we could make it maybe a little better, more feasible for construction and what could what we could live with.

This is beautiful plan, um, but if it's not buildable, it's gonna prevent to builders to build homes and develop the community, elect elect at least have a little more conversation and give us uh make it better, uh better compromise that maybe we can all digest uh I like to see at least one more chance, but not not too long.

Like two weeks might be too short, but then anything, don't wait like three to six months.

Um, but I'd like to hear it back soon rather than later.

Where are you at?

Yeah, I'm just I'm trying to be rough among okay as far as I can go.

Okay.

Um we have three for move forward right now, four for a pause.

So I think what we're gonna do is uh take a brief pause.

I'm happy to meet with you guys.

Uh I think I understand where the council's at to kind of talk about um what I I'm hearing.

Um, but what I think we need to understand a little bit more is uh more in the exception and the cost in the SDCs and um what I would like to hear from everyone that testified is what would be a compromise recognizing where the council's goals are, and we'll have to reconcile.

If it comes back, we want two lanes each way, no bike lane, no canopy.

Like I'm sorry, that's not gonna be helpful here.

And so we're we're giving you an opportunity to tell us what you could live with.

And I'm looking out at you and I'm looking out at other people.

Um, if we can't get something back, we're not experts.

We don't do this work.

You guys are experts, so we need a little bit of help and guidance, but I'm happy to kind of meet as the council person to move it forward.

Um, so let's get it done.

So thank you.

And I know this is this is again not a reflection of your work.

This is not a reflection of of the work product you put forward.

It is really great.

And I'm sorry that we're gonna ask you to take a little bit of a pause here on this work, but I'm confident we can have it back really quickly.

Yes.

Um, mayor, just for the record, and so we get it right.

Is there a motion to postpone to a particular date?

I mean or motion to table or what whatever.

That's why I was counting votes.

Um I could what you would you like from us because it's pulled from consent and not voted on.

Usually oral direction is sufficient, but what would you what do you need?

Motion to postpone to a particular date or a motion to table, something that um uh documents what what happened.

Is it possible?

I mean, I'd like the record to requ reflect that we a couple of us were supportive.

Is it possible to do that and then do the postponement?

Because I feel uncomfortable doing a postponement when I'm comfortable today.

No, I mean you could vote against moving forward, but you're outnumbered, so it's not going to be well, you can take a vote if that's um anyone can make a motion.

Yeah, go ahead, counselor teeter.

I would just ask that whoever makes a motion if you're comfortable providing the detail of those areas that you would like changed, that would really help.

Uh just provide some clarity.

If you're comfortable with whoever makes that motion.

Okay.

Uh I'll make a motion tonight since someone's jumping.

I move that we postpone agenda bill 6.14 for two weeks, our next available council meeting in the interim.

What we would like from staff is a review of the STCs.

We would like staff to work with the groups that came forward and testified to make sure that we understand their concerns and any recommendations.

I've heard from the council a variety of things, like what would a smaller road look like, what would the cost of removing the median look like, what would um give us some options.

I can pinhole you or you could be creative as staff.

How much more detail do you want from us, city attorney?

I'm trying to give you some bandwidth to be able to do staff job and not do it all directive from the council daisy.

Is that sufficient?

Sorry.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

I'm asking the attorney.

Well, the question the the the detail question I think should be directed to staff as far as a motion.

Um only request mayor was that there there be a motion.

So um, you know, if someone wanted to move to adopt it, they could have made that motion, or if someone wanted to move um as just did mayor to postpone to a definite date that that that be done, and that that satisfies what I was looking for.

I'll defer to staff on whether they have direction.

Do you feel like you have sufficient direction?

Um I understand that you would like us to come back in two weeks with some sort of modified uh proposal.

Um and yeah, we would as you said it would be great to hear from those that provided comment today what they uh would recommend in our previous meetings.

We did ask them to give us some ideas.

So we'd love to hear what they hope to see.

Uh so I move that we move uh agenda bill 6.4 or agenda bill 2600 six time forward in two weeks.

It's been moved and seconded.

Uh any discussion.

Uh see none.

Will the recorder oh, sorry, counselor Husson?

Yeah, I mean, I just want to let the record reflect.

I do think that there's exceptions in this process, and so that is where I pause to hold.

So I will be voting against postponing because I support the agenda bill as it is.

Thanks.

All right, will the recorder take the roll?

Counselor Duggar?

Yes.

Councillor Hart, Mayor Prague.

No.

Councilor Hassan?

No.

Councillor Kimmy?

Yes.

Councilor Teter.

No.

Councillor Tivnon.

Yes.

Mayor Beatty.

Yes.

Um, four yes, three no.

Motion carries.

All right.

Okay.

Um, the next item on the agenda is first reading of two separate ordinance.

Uh, reading the uh regarding the first ordinance on January 20th, 2026, during a regularly scheduled city council meeting.

A public hearing will be held regarding an ordinance amending Beaverton Code Section 3.07 related to transportation system development charges.

And with regard to a second ordinance on January 20th, 2026, during a regularly scheduled city council meeting, a public hearing will be held regarding an ordinance amending Beaverton Code Chapter 5 by adding uh Beaverton Code 5.19, codifying organ sanctuary promise act and declaring an emergency.

This concludes the first reading of the two ordinance.

All right.

With that, we are on to our work uh session, agenda bill 26014, 2026 state and federal legal framework.

Legislative framework.

Air, there were two first readings.

Sorry, did you not hear it?

Okay.

Sorry, just double checking.

You know, we like our lists.

Good evening, council.

Uh, for the record, my name is Jocelyn Blake, government relations manager.

I am joined today by our associates from CFM, our lobbyists in both DC and Salem, and I will let them introduce themselves.

Joel, would you like to?

You bet.

Thanks so much, Jocelyn.

Joel Rubin with CFM Advocates just flew out from Washington, D.C., so really appreciate the opportunity to present tonight and talk a little bit about what's happening in our nation's capital.

I'm probably gonna go about a millimeter deep because a day is about a year in Washington, DC, but look forward to presenting the successes for the year for this for the city.

And Ryan Gleason with CFM Advocates here to talk about the state agenda.

And can we go next slide?

So we have a very simple question straightforward for you today.

We're gonna present our draft state and federal framework.

Um and there we're proposing to bring it back for adoption on January 20th.

So at the end, our question is if you would have anything today that you would like to see added or changed to the framework as is before we bring it back for adoption on January 20th.

The 20th date does allow us some a little bit of flexibility with the short session, the short state legislative session starting February 2nd and lasting five weeks into the beginning of March.

Next slide.

So we're gonna do a recap of the um 2025 legislative long session.

Um as a reminder, long session, six months.

Um we had a landmark of a year.

Um we had a record three thousand four hundred and sixty-six bills introduced, um, the most bills in a session that we've ever had.

Of those six hundred and thirty-three were signed by the governor.

Um, a little internal um seven hundred and eighty-eight bills were flagged by staff as having some city nexus.

Of those thirty-seven were deemed a high priority and were actively um lobbied or engaged on um in a very intense way, and then there were many others that had um medium or low priority assigned to them.

For successes, um, to start off, and this is kind of going with the theme of the night.

We secured three million dollars for the Meadowlark Senior Affordable Housing Complex to make sure that construction could continue on schedule for this year.

The senior affordable housing uh complex is gonna be located across from the library, and it's gonna be a beautiful blend of a head start on the bottom and um affordable units where our um aging senior population can age gracefully in place in downtown Beaverton.

Also, um we played a large role in partnership with the governor's office on House Bill 3031, which created a new housing infrastructure financing program that's modeled after the city's WIFIA program, and the hopes that um this program will be a long-lasting funding system for us to dip back into maybe on Cooper Mountain as we get closer to that.

Um, it is both for site-specific housing and um large-scale capacity increasing projects.

House uh Senate Bill 179 codified um recreational immunity, so it allows local governments and landowners to continue to provide um recreational facilities in our outdoor spaces, and then finally House Bill 3991, which raised about 700 million in a biennium for um our state highway fund for the maintenance of our transportation system.

And I'm gonna dig a little bit deeper into that in the next slide.

We'll see a timeline here.

Um House Bill 2025 was the original transportation bill that was proposed.

It was um a 10-year transportation um look, a full package, if you will.

Um, that failed at the very very end of session.

However, the governor called a special session, House Bill 3991 was passed.

It is a uh a mini transportation bill, if you will.

It raises the gas tax six cents, which would be about 700 million in a biennium.

For Beaverton, that would look uh about 2.3 million for our state highway fund, which is specifically maintenance and operation of our roads.

However, that was um referred to back to the ballot, specifically the gas tax increase.

So that will be on the November ballot, and all revenue has been paused.

If the referendum fails and the gas tax stays in place, um revenue collection will continue, and we will likely see that increase starting in 2027.

And next slide, please.

So lastly, we talked about the senior meadow lark, just a little update on some of our other state funded projects as we've been successful over the last handful of years.

So this year alone, we completed the nonprofit incubator, which received $500,000 from the state legislature in 2022.

This winter we're gonna be completing construction on the Kemmer Booster Pump Station, which received $3 million in 2024, and the Purple Pipes um project that received $2.5 million in 2023.

Both um I believe Purple Pipe is already completed, and Kemmer is getting the booster um the pumps actually installed as we speak.

And then finally, the Meadow Lark Senior Affordable Housing will start construction this year.

Next slide.

So shifting, looking at this upcoming session.

Um the short session is largely for budgetary items and technical fixes.

They always find a way to slide in a few policy proposals.

Um the large topic at hand, as with the city council, as with the state, it's going to be the federal response.

It's going to be ICE and support for our immigration and refugee communities, as well as trying to hold our federal partners accountable for what they're doing in while operating in Oregon.

The City Council directed previously, about a month ago, for a memo of a full a fuller picture of what's happening at the state level regarding ICE.

So that is short coming to you shortly.

That will have a fuller summary of all of the um immigration related bills that are expected.

This is an ongoing conversation, obviously, and we'll have more concepts after the drop deadline on Friday.

So you'll receive another update and we'll receive continued update as session goes along.

But um, we do know the kind of broad concepts, and I'll touch on those as as we go along.

But the other piece too is um the federal response to HR1, which was the federal tax bill that provides new tax incentives.

It has about a $15 billion implication for the state's revenue over the next five bienniums.

So this short session is the start of that conversation of how is the state going to balance their budget.

They've been asking for 5% reduction scenarios across all agencies.

So we're gonna be working hand in hand with our agency partners on what that would look like with state shared revenue and trying to mitigate the impacts on the city.

Next slide.

The other two high-level concepts that will be priority economic development.

The governor recently released her economic development plan.

We're um likely to see those concepts being introduced by legislative leadership through the form of bills.

You'll see workforce development, um, tax incentives, and also um permit timeline increases to just try to get um businesses as quickly as we can entering and sustaining in Oregon.

And then the continued focus on housing.

This I have overlapping with the immigration and refugee, and that there's been um a lot of conversation around how do we keep people housed in Oregon, housing preservation, rental assistance, and then the added conversation of how do we make sure that those resources are available for immigrant and refugee communities as well.

And then a last note that there is a ref both a ballot measure and a bill that would repeal House Bill 3115.

Beaverton has been very vocal in opposition to repealing um time, place and manner restrictions around homelessness since our ordinance has gone into place and that we're seeing progress on our streets.

So that's going to be a primary focal point for us in the short session and around the ballot measure.

And with that, next slide, I'll turn it over to Jill to talk about the federal.

Thanks so much, Jocelyn.

As I mentioned at the outset, CFM advocates, uh, Joel Rubin, uh part of your DC federal team.

And just want to say at the outset, thank you to the mayor and council and staff for all the help in putting together a successful federal agenda for 2025 and uh looking forward to another successful year in 2026.

So next slide, please.

Uh what we typically like to do at the end of the year, and I know this is the beginning of the year, happy new year, uh, is to review some of the successes from 2025 and talk about your federal agenda moving forward in 26.

This is the kind of the first touch, and it'll be finalized.

The agenda will be finalized later this month by council.

Um talk a little bit about the transportation reauthorization bill in DC.

That happens every five years.

It's the major transportation bill that Congress works on, and it's gonna be a really excuse me, a really important year uh as it funds a lot of transportation programs that you all can take advantage of, including the loop project moving forward.

So we'll talk a little bit more detail about that.

And then do a little preview about what the elections look like in 2026 or in November.

Uh I know it's a long way away, but it gives some context of what folks are thinking about in Washington, D.C.

as they're working on legislation moving through Congress.

So next slide, please.

I just wanted to give a quick uh uh refresher on some of the things that we do in Washington, D.C.

for the City of Beaverton.

One of the primary uh objectives that we have is to bring federal resources back to the community.

And that takes the shape of grant applications and federal community uh projects, which is earmarks funding.

So on the grant side, we help you all uh determine which projects fit the federal parameters, uh all the requirements that go along with it, help you write those grants, submit them, and then advocate for them with your congressional delegation and with the agencies.

And the mayor and team have come back to Washington, D.C.

to specifically advocate for those.

Similarly, on the appropriation side or the earmark side, putting together projects that are competitive and submitted to your congressional delegation that are included in appropriations bills, and you've had a really strong success record of doing that.

So we help you formulate that strategy and ultimately submit them to the congressional offices, and then again advocate for those projects as well.

Supporting legislative initiatives, coordinating with uh state and local uh uh entities to make sure that we're elevating your projects, but also policy items, relationship building.

You all have very good relationships with your congressional delegation, um, and we try to complement that by being boots on the ground in Washington, D.C.

And then just overall strategic positioning of your projects to make sure that your congressional delegation knows where your projects stand, the successes that you've had.

You all have an amazing track record of delivering projects on time and on budget.

And whenever there's key moments to demonstrate that to the congressional offices, we try to take advantage of that.

And I think you see them here quite often as projects are there's groundbreakings or ribbon cuttings or just progress being made on the ground.

Next slide, please.

So this is the fun part uh in talking about the successes for Beaverton.

Beaverton is doing uh really well in terms of the number of projects that have been secured or about to be secured in Congress.

So in 2025, the number in green have it been secured.

The yellow ones should be secured by the end of the month as Congress finalizes their appropriations process.

They typically do it in December, but because of the government shutdown, longest shutdown in history, 43 days.

It's taking a little bit longer to get these appropriations bills done, but we're feeling pretty good about where those stand now, and that these uh items in yellow will be uh secured here the next couple of weeks.

So a brownfield assessment grant for the city was secured by through the environmental public uh environment, environmental protection agency uh in the spring, $500,000.

Uh we were a little worried at the outset of the Trump administration that they weren't going to fund as many projects in blue states or blue areas.

And so we were pleasantly surprised to see that the city was successful in support in securing the $500,000 Brownfield grant.

And I'd also say I've been pleasantly surprised about the overall allocation of awards from the Trump administration about the awards that he's allocating.

I will say I'm always been concerned about anything that was awarded by the Biden administration has either been frozen, cut, uh put on hold, or there's just been a lot of questions about those previous awards being made.

And so the administration is going through those relatively slowly, and uh uh those awards are being scrutinized more.

But the new awards I've been pleasantly surprised at the distribution.

So looking forward to 2026, the grant opportunities uh I think are real, and there's opportunities for success on the grant space as well.

Um the next three items are congressionally directed spending, community projects, earmarks that your congressional offices have secured in House and Senate bills for the City of Beaverton.

The senior housing project by Congresswoman Bonamici is a little more than three million dollars, and that should be finalized by the end of the month.

Uh the North Transmission Line Project was secured by Senator Merkley and Senator Wyden at $2 million, and that again should be secured by the end of the month.

And the behavioral health court was uh secured by Congresswoman Salinas for $500,000.

So totaling a round out all of the grant awards and congressionally directed spending for six million dollars for the city of Beaverton in 2025.

So really just proud of that record and the team your team's great work on that, the leadership from the mayor and the council and putting together a strong list of projects.

Uh what we we typically like to get one or two awards, so getting four in one year is just uh something that we're really proud of in DC.

That builds on the previous successes since 2021.

There's a list there, the number uh of awards for the loop, uh the shelter, the WIFIA program, which is your water infrastructure.

There's just a lot of successes that the city's had at the federal level, and we're looking to continue to do that moving forward.

There's also been some policy successes uh in terms of securing and making sure that so you had a raise grant for the loop that was uh awarded under the Biden administration.

There was concern that the Trump administration will be pulling some of those back.

We worked with the congressional delegation to make sure that that award uh is intact, and we're gonna be signing a grant agreement here shortly on the RAISE planning grant.

Um and then uh supporting the infrastructure package that passed in 2021.

That, like I mentioned before, is part of the transportation reauthorization bill.

We're gonna be trying to work to make sure that those improvements and those programs that were created in that bill are sustained moving forward.

The the transportation package, basically, there were three main competitive grant programs at the Department of Transportation before that bill passed.

Now there's 23 programs, including the build program, Safe Streets for All, Reconnecting Communities, uh, that you all can take advantage of uh have been taking advantage of and will be taking advantage of moving forward.

Uh next slide, please.

Here's uh the draft agenda that we've been working on with your team on uh for 2026.

Uh we'll be going after funding for the loop again.

Uh you all submitted a raise grant uh in 2025.

You were one of the few projects, there's about a hundred projects nationwide that were considered projects of merit, but it ultimately wasn't funded uh in that round, but it set you up for really good in a good position to be funded in 2026.

So going after a pretty big chunk of funding, uh 25 million dollars in the build, it's was called raise, now it's called build.

Trump likes to rename everything.

Um we're gonna be going after that uh program in 2026, uh, and then also going after a four million dollar earmark request to your congressional delegation to continue continue to build out those developmental uh uh projects section by section uh as we get additional federal funds.

The Lower Wood Avenue Neighborhood Access Project is a safety project uh that helps folks uh with bike ped complete streets, getting to school safely uh in the Lorola neighborhood and seeking 1.8 million dollars for those infrastructure improvements in 26.

The Oregon Startup Center, which builds on the success six previous successful earmark for uh the nonprofit business incubator to continue to develop and help fund some of the operations at the Oregon Startup Center for $500,000.

And then Aquafer Storage, um, which is a key asset that you all have, unique to Beaverton.

There's a few other communities that have that in Oregon, but it's a really good water infrastructure project that we're gonna be putting forward for the congressional delegation to support in 2026 as well.

That can address some of the water uh needs for the community.

On the policy side, we're gonna be looking.

There's a number of policy items here.

I'm not gonna go too far into the weeds, so just reference them briefly, uh, but happy to answer any questions on them, protecting the safety and civil rights of the immigrant immigrant and refugee community.

I think that we want to keep on elevating this issue with your congressional delegation so they can bring these concerns to the administration as they're uh uh implementing some of their policies.

Uh it's really important that your congressional delegation understands the challenges and the issues that your community is facing and bringing that awareness to that to your congressional delegation will help them have a voice in DC to reflect some of the needs that you all have as a community.

Protecting uh funding from federal over overreach, honoring existing contract language, the administration is trying to implement uh sanctuary jurisdiction restrictions restrictions on federal funds, uh DEI provisions and others that would limit uh certain grant agreements that you all sign as a commun as a city when you're entering these federal grant and and earmark uh agreements with the federal government.

We're trying to make sure that the administration isn't doing too much overreach in that on that front.

Ultimately, I think the courts are gonna be making a lot of those decisions.

They've already put a hold on the sanctuary jurisdiction status to allow communities to continue to operate or secure uh to implement federal funds without meeting the executive order requirements of the Trump administration.

Next slide, please.

And I'll try to go through these quickly because I know we have the state side too.

Supporting that robust transportation reauthorization bill that's up this year, really important to get that infrastructure package passed and have it a robust funding source for you all to go after projects like the Loop moving forward.

Affordable housing obviously is a uh critical need here in Beaverton and throughout the country, supporting and protecting the key federal programs that were talked about today at C D BG, the home program, and a lot of homelessness initiatives that are funded at the federal level, making sure we're protecting those and appropriations bills uh that need to pass every year.

There's regulatory concerns about the FEMA biological opinion that is underway right now that would significantly hamper development within the city of Beaverton and working with FEMA uh to try to limit the impacts or delay some of the impacts of those biological opinion uh uh results.

Uh tax reform, uh restoring advance funding, this was eliminated in the Trump tax cut of 2017, where basically if the city took out some bonds at 5% and you wanted to refinance them at 3% as rates go down, uh you're not allowed to do that anymore.

You used to be able to do that, but to pay for some of the tax cuts in the 2017 tax bill, they eliminated eliminated that to pay for some of the uh tax provisions.

Uh opposing FCC preemption uh uh there in terms of the small cell towers that are located throughout uh the city, uh FCC is proposing to take away some of the rights of cities and to put in shot clocks that are really difficult to meet in terms of implementing uh some of those local control um requirements that you all have put in place.

So pushing back on that and work with your congressional delegation so you understand those concerns.

Supporting housing and for the unhoused for uh disabled veterans uh legislation has been moving through had moved through the House, which we were glad to see that that passed in the House and it uh still pending in the Senate, and we want to try to get that over the goal line.

And then Scoggins Dam, uh there's some Bureau of Reclamation proposals to limp potentially uh limit the amount of water that's available to the city of Beaverton if the the some of the proposals by Bureau of Reclamation go into place and we're gonna try to push back against those.

That's gonna be a long-term initiative and partnering with a lot of the uh cities in the region in the county to make sure that those water rights and those water uh the availability of those that water resource uh continues moving forward, so we'll be raising awareness about that in partnership with your uh other cities in the county and Washington County.

That's the overall agenda.

We could talk about those if you have questions.

I'm gonna touch real quick on the timeline for transportation reauthorization.

The the House was supposed to mark up a bill in November, December with the government shutdown that got delayed, and it's expected to be marked up in February or March of this year.

Uh so that we're gonna be actively uh engaging with your congressional delegation to make sure that there is a robust transportation reauthorization bill.

Uh so that will pass likely pass out of the House in the spring around May.

Uh then the Senate's gonna be working on their version, they'll start working on it in May as well.

Um, but ultimately, if there's not agreement among the House and the Senate, or if there is agreement, it could pass this summer.

If there's not, which I at this point anticipate uh there could be an extension uh past the election as we're looking at, and this is why it kind of comes into play in terms of the midterms.

Um, if there isn't a robust transportation package, I think Democrats aren't gonna want to support it as much.

There's a lot of conservative Republicans that uh want to not spend as much on government spending in generally.

And the uh one big beautiful bill, HR1, the big tax cut created a big deficit hole of about four trillion dollars over the next decade.

So there might be some uh pushback into doing a significant transportation bill because of that.

And if there isn't an agreement on highway funding, transit funding in a bipartisan manner, then it's likely there would be an extension that's needed by September 30th to just simply extend it, and then the next Congress would have to work on uh finalizing the transportation bill.

And last slide, uh why I kind of talked about those uh uh parameters of uh an election year is folks in DC always think about elections, and they're thinking about it more than ever now.

Uh right now we have a full control by the Republican Party of the Senate and the House.

There's a 53, 47 majority in the Senate, and there's a two three seat now two seat majority in the House of Representatives.

There was a member of California and the House of Republican that just passed away yesterday, and uh so this the majorities in both the House Senate and Senate are very slim.

It's the slimmest majorities in over a hundred years for for House and Senate.

Democrats are hoping to make some strides in the 2026 midterms.

The Senate's a really difficult map.

Uh there's uh 34 seats up in the Senate.

You have six-year terms, so a third of the Senate is up every two years.

Uh Democrats are hoping to they need four seats to take the majority.

They're hoping they can pick up Maine with Susan Collins.

That's a very competitive seat for Democrats, and North Carolina, Tom Tillis is retiring in North Carolina, and they're trying they're thinking that's a uh an opportunity for pickup for the Democrats there.

But then once you get past those two seats, it's gets starts to get a little bit more difficult to see how Democrats pick up those four seats.

You're looking at states like Texas and Florida and Iowa, and it just starts to get a little bit harder.

So if there is a more of a blue wave, um there's uh hope for Democrats that they could pick up the Senate.

Um, but I think most Democrats in DC are looking at the House of Representatives in 2026, where what we saw in 25, the current last year was significant overperformance in special elections and governor's races for Democrats across the country, from governors' races in Virginia and New Jersey, uh Prop 50 in California, and some other special elections in red states and blue states where Democrats significantly overperformed at this point.

There's a lot of uh Democrats that are feeling pretty good about it.

Republicans are thinking about what their message is going to be.

And President Trump was on the house in in uh the House of Representatives talking to House Republics today about what their message is going to be uh going into the midterm elections.

And I think affordability is going to be a huge issue, and just uh democracy, the state of play, um, and the Trump administration is going to try to change the narrative because of the election outcomes from 2025, where Democrats feel like they have some wind at their back.

But we're a long time till November, but this is just what folks are thinking about in DC at this point and how it potentially could impact legislation, big legislation like the transportation bill.

If Democrats are feeling pretty good about things, they may not want to f uh to to have uh make a deal that isn't good on the transportation front if they know that they're gonna be in the majority and at least in the House of Representatives in 2027.

So with that, I'll stop there and just say thank you again for all your uh help, support, leadership in DC.

Um, and I'll pass it on to the state side.

So that's our entire presentation.

We can put back our one question for you, um, slide up with our one question.

But today we're here to get feedback from you on if there's any um changes or questions that you have on the draft framework before we bring it back to you on January 20th for potential adoption.

Awesome.

Uh well, thanks for coming, Joel, and meeting with us today.

And of course, uh your state side team was wonderful in the closing of the session last year.

And I would say a master class in what it took to get transportation in cities in the front.

And Ryan just ran the map and so well.

So I think you guys have a lot to be proud of of the work that you were able to accomplish on our city's behalf.

Um I think we're heading into a tough state session.

We're heading into a tough legislative federal session.

I appreciate the the broad uh policy framework that we're doing, mostly around protection.

Um I know the U.S.

Conference of Mayors is playing a large role in a lot of these uh conversations as well because it's not partisan, right?

Keeping state and local taxes and local control is incredibly important, and it was designed in the Constitution that way.

So I do just also want to say the pivot that your guys' team took on the raise or built or whatever we're calling it now when President Trump won and having to change our application in the last minute and making it to a project of merit and going to DC and talking about it was just it feels kind of unreal that we're in this place and still kind of holding it together.

So I'm extremely hopeful that we're able to do that.

And I know when Joel and I met with uh Department of Transportation, they loved our library.

What I talked a lot about in that presentation was that how you could rent things and how we're focusing on making that a cultural hub and how businesses are growing.

So two things can be true.

We can have a really great transportation loop and have really great businesses adjacent to it.

So thank you for the work that you do.

It's it's uh noticeable and you know, it's not lost on me that we have a really great in-house government affairs manager managing kind of all sides while uh having a baby and still doing it and doing it wonderfully.

So just thank you guys.

I don't have enough positive things to say about um CFM and the work you're doing for us.

Counselor Hussen.

Yes.

Um I'm just if it's okay, I'm just gonna go down this a little just to um so I'm on the first page of the 2026 legislative framework, and the support size says greater accountability for federal officers operating within Oregon.

Love it.

Is it worth saying something like consequences?

Because I feel like I've seen some of that in the language of what legislators are working on for 2026.

Yes, we can absolutely um and I know what you're referring to, and again, um, for the rest of us, this will be outlined in the memo that you'll receive about the bills that are coming.

But there are some proposals that are looking at um when there is federal overreach, what those consequences look like.

There's been legal opinions around what is um within the authority of the state and within local governments to mandate.

As we all know, as local governments, we have very limited authority, but we are looking um to support help support the state in whatever they can do to provide those consequences.

And I'll provide an example of if you're gonna break down a door without a warrant, right?

That's a pretty typical scenario of what does that mean for the federal government and how they have to repay back the family to the door that they broke down.

So long-winded answer to yes, um, and we are likely to see to the extent that we can um consequence language in in the bills.

Okay, that would be my one thought to you all.

I think accountability is a good first step, but we need to see a little bit more on the consequence side, and I think what I'm hearing is that's coming is gonna be what we want.

And I think just put throwing that in there would be helpful.

Um, for the lodging tax reform, can you like in one minute just remind me about that?

Absolutely.

So this is going to be um a reiteration of a bill that was introduced in the 2025 session.

Um, it didn't pass largely just from a technical standpoint because there were a couple people absent on the floor and weren't able to vote for it.

So it's the same proposal coming back.

What it would do is provide us a little bit more flexibility on future TLT revenue to go to um community supporting infrastructure.

Um, so infrastructure that supports tra uh um tourism and um tourism related.

So I think public bathrooms, public safety.

Um, in some cases, um, some cities were looking at like water infrastructure for peak demand um that increases in the summer months.

So it kind of expands that umbrella for us and um provides more flexibility on this um percentage that we're allowed to spend on tourism.

Okay, thank you.

Uh I love the clear public meeting provisions because I don't even know that we know what our public meeting provisions are.

So appreciate that one.

Um I think my only other comment or my last comment, and this is more gonna be directed to the council is um, you know, Councilor Kimmy and I have sort of talked a lot about sort of this like multicultural center community center concept, and we're in this moment right now where we're seeing the immigrant and refugee community really struggling.

Um, and when I look at some of our um specific dollar asks, I'd I'd like us to to ask for money for immigrant justice work.

Like I think whether it's a resource center, whether it's um a place where people can get legal support, we have been hit very hard.

And I don't expect us to get the money, but I think it signals something really big to say we want to partner with the community-based organization and set aside a million dollars to put this in the framework because we are seeing people get evicted every day.

We're we're seeing people get deported every day, and if we want to shift the direction of what it means to be an Oregonian and in in Beaverton, um, I think that's something that we need to do.

Again, like I'm not having high expectations that we're gonna get something out of this.

I think the idea is to signal that we see this as such a big priority that we're not just saying policy, we're putting dollars to it.

I think it's really important to put dollars to it.

And that has been probably the hardest wake-up call for me and a lot of people in our community, like telling them to call a 211 or some of these services is not something they feel comfortable doing.

And unfortunately, uh federal agents in our community right now have made it completely terrifying to call anyone for help.

And so point in time counts and all these things are really low.

So I like us to give direction to add something around that with language.

I think we can be pretty vague.

I'm not obsessed with what it says, and just more the idea that we do think that this is a priority for us and that we support that because we know we've had I don't want to say numbers, but a high number of people impacted in Beaverton.

Uh just and you guys could talk about this.

This is a short session, and so the mechanisms of how we do that don't exist.

This is about uh policy, so um just to add to that, mayor and counselor, we have changed the process for capital construction asks this go around.

It is completely new to all of us.

They are um limiting to two per legislator this go around this session.

We could see limits going into future sessions.

We would have to have have this um ask sponsored by a legislator.

Um we, if that is the direction of the council, we can go forth and um attempt to get that in the next few weeks ahead of session.

Um, but I just wanted to make sure you were aware of that process change that we um just found out about a week ago.

This is the state level.

This is the state level.

And is for capital construction.

This is for capital construction.

So I think I don't know that this is a capital construction ask.

I think this is a more general so as I'm hearing you potentially on um money to support like housing preservation and um you mentioned evictions.

So I do want to just note um one of the bills that um we're looking at is like a um I'll call it a minibus and omnibus um support for immigration and refugee housing um preservation, rental assistance, as well as legal support.

So the the dollar amounts that have been thrown out are five million dollars for housing preservation and five million dollars for legal support.

Um and so far that has garnered uh a lot of support.

However, if the council so chooses and wants to do a separate and has a separate type of nonprofit that they're they have in mind, we can add that.

Um I would just emphasize to your point on the expectations um with the financial situation and the five percent agency cuts.

Um the flip side to that is we are seeing proposed um immigration support cuts from the agencies perspective.

So it's going to be a very contentious session in what is available for dollar amount.

So just to that expectation, it would be an uphill battle, but we can absolutely um talk to our regional partners as well, because I think um our surrounding cities um are interested in what that support looks like.

So uh yes, and if you will.

And I think and I need to talk with folks because I have I have been in touch with a couple legislators.

I just it is January 7th, 6th, just started the new year.

Um I don't know the details.

I think again, this is a signal to say we're putting this in.

Uh, I don't think the expectation is we're getting very much.

I think the idea is that we are working to put this in and we're working to put together what it looks like.

And putting it in is not demanding it.

It's just signaling to you that this is also a priority to us.

I will also add the state has funded immigration resources and services, and that money has run out very quickly.

Um, in the state, we have universal representation, which means if you're impacted community, you get representation.

They are bleeding at the rate that we're providing legal representation for our community, which is awesome because we are providing that, but I just think having that additional layer of protection is something that we can do and work towards in Beaverton.

Counselor Hermeyer Prigg.

Thank you.

Um I think for me, like the the ask that you have, Councilor Hussein, it makes sense to kind of fit it into the public health and safety room where we talk about enhancing social and legal services for immigrant and refugee communities and others uh impacted.

And I it sounds like we have a lot of support from the policy perspective.

I if there's a mechanism, like I'm all for it because I think that like we should ask.

I I don't know, I guess I don't know the reality of if it's possible, right?

But I I totally appreciate like we know we're kind of well, we know we're more than kind of constrained right now as a city, and um we haven't been able to offer any of that direct support right now.

Um, well, we have through services.

I don't want to diminish the work that that staff and that um that folks are doing to help address this moment, but um I think like we can maybe fit something in there.

I would be supportive of that.

Um and and otherwise, I think the framework is just it's very comprehensive.

I think it really meets our um our values and our objectives, and I also like that we keep staying focused even when the legislature is often not very focused.

Um, because I think that's how we get things done, and that's how we're successful.

And I will say I'm pleasantly surprised by the federal report.

Like I, you know, so thank you.

Thank you for the work that that you all are doing to continue to to look out for Beaverton and for Oregonians.

I I I felt optimistic seeing some of that, right?

Um just just knowing that like we are still um finding success to take care of our city um in forums that I was expecting we wouldn't really have a chance.

So um generally love the framework.

I'm supportive of adding something, I think it kind of fits naturally there.

Um that you know, even maybe just something as as as simple as you know, seek funding opportunities that like support that same bullet or something like that.

Um, because we have heard so much from our community that like legal services are something where um they're expensive and they're you know, there's a lack of resources right now, and and people as as their family members are being taken, legal services are are something that is really critical, taking care of uh or eviction prevention and rental assistance and things like that.

So I think you know you've heard from us like what the things are, um, but I I would support adding something into that section.

Um I definitely think adding something to the the section here.

I I want to be incredibly realistic with the council.

This is not a long session, there's not a lottery fund, there's not this place where we could go in and ask for money.

Capital construction is a piece.

This is not a capital construction ask.

And we you guys need to empower our team for a good enough reason to say, why should you give money to the city and not PERC?

Why should you give money not to ACLU?

Like we're gonna be competing against the direct people we want to help in this scenario.

And I I like this is we need an actual ask, and the session starts in three weeks.

So I think like it's really difficult to go in and ask for something when it's not a complete ask.

And like, what are we asking for?

Are we asking money for legal services that are gonna work here?

And if it has nothing to do with city services, it will get bounced.

It won't even like if unless it has a direct connection or we have a group or something we're funding it to.

So I just want to be realistic that if we add something to the agenda as a signal, then we lose focus, like then all these other things become secondary, and our ability to actually get this work done on the city's behalf is hampered.

So I think when it comes back to us, we need a more like we can't just I we cannot go to the legislature and say, please give us money.

Like it has to be an ask, and the reason we're successful is we're very disciplined and detailed about how the money is coming.

Now, policy-wise, we can spend a lot of effort supporting groups that are out there doing getting asking for money like PERC, like ACLU, we can submit letters, we could testify, like that is where we become a like a force multiplier.

So I just want us to be realistic.

This is not a long session, there's not lottery funding out there for us to go and compete against.

This is very specific, very short session with very specific goals.

I think where something like this would come together is a long session.

So just keep that in mind when it's coming back.

Counselor Duggar.

Is there something and just question-wise, like, does it make sense to add it now and then start building that that kind of framework for you know, chances are we're not gonna get it this year.

I mean, that I think we all kind of I mean, I would just say like I think we adopt our framework very similarly every year.

So I think to me, it matters to to put something here.

Um I acknowledge what you're saying, and I will say to you, and I said it publicly, I the expectations are low.

The idea is that we're talking about this, and we're saying that this is a bit of a priority.

So I I just I that to me is like how I would frame it.

I understand where the mirror is coming from.

There are community-based organizations.

We know about them, they're doing the work here.

I'm not trying to name all of that.

Um but I think it's that's kind of where I was is like is like you know, we do have groups like just throwing Wake Up Everton, right?

That are operating within our community very specifically doing very specific work for our residents.

So maybe there's an opportunity there for us to define that.

I don't know if we can do it over three weeks, but I would you know, maybe maybe the I like your language around seek funds.

I think that makes sense.

Um fully eyes wide open that this is a long shot, but like it sets us up to build build on it year after year.

So I would support that.

I I think what I'm trying to get you to understand guys to understand is that it is a form that we have to fill out with a very specific ask.

There's no specific ask.

We can't just say we want money to do services, it has to be very specific.

And so I think Councillor Hartmeyer Priggs' suggestion of broadening the framework so we could go out and look at grants and figure out if there's another way.

But if it is, it has to be an ask.

Like it I I and maybe Jocelyn can step in here.

Yeah, and from what you were speaking to, Counselor Hassan of my example of the mini bus around the five million and the five million, I think that there to the mayor's point.

There's not going to be very many opportunities to say we want one million dollars for this very specific, but in that frame of they are thinking about where their money needs to go, they are thinking about allocating money and where we have that opportunities to be at those conversations and talking about Beavertons needs and the community um organizations that we have here and making sure that they're setting up the that money so that our organizations that represent us have the ability to access them.

And so I think that the what you're trying to get at, if I may, is providing that access for our specific groups.

And so providing language within that framework that gives me the flexibility to say it's very important that these types of organizations and we can have that conversation of wake up Beaverton or or um whatever it is and what they do are thought about in that way when money is on the table.

And if I could add, like I know this is a work session, so we're just chatting.

We're not there yet.

In my mind, putting it here is step one to being able to continue to talk about it.

I am not throwing out community-based organizations because there's many that are doing it, and I don't really want to say this one, this one, this one.

Um I can name ones that I know, but I think us again, just that first step of putting it there and acknowledging that maybe we're not filling out an application, but we're putting it on this framework.

I do think that because I just got back from a really long time.

I I'm happy to talk with some of the organizations or have us talk to some of the organizations that are doing that work to see what they would want, like in the next two weeks, so that by the time we get back, I'm also happy to give you that direction if that's better.

Um I just I think it's an important thing for us to try to again just signal that this is something we care about.

I think we're saying the same thing.

I think we're saying the same thing.

And uh I'm also taking that as um if we want to signal as um the session shifts over the five weeks, if opportunities arise, giving the flexibility to be able to jump on opportunities if we see they fit within that.

Um I think is kind of what you're saying and continuing that long-term um goal session after session to build on that, that this is a um a foundation that we're looking for um that we want to see those resources.

Um I'm thinking kind of around the economic development platforms as well, because I think they're gonna intersect with our immigration and refugee communities, and those are gonna be five session worth of work.

Right.

I I'm just throwing out a number, but we're gonna be doing the having these conversations for years of um how do we set the seeds for larger policy conversations in the long session.

So uh and that's what I'm hearing from the mayor as well is let's craft a language that um opens that door, has us doing the legwork so that we can jump on opportunities if they arise, but also recognizing to the mayor's point that there might not be a specific pathway um uh right now, um, but we'll be ready for it if there is Councilor Tivnon.

Yeah, I'm comfortable adding in language that just continues to help inform how you're viewing and listening to and responding to things is boots on the ground there.

So that's all I had.

And there's way less bills for us to filter, right?

Every legislature is limited, like they're limited to what they can carry, so it's easier for us to filter very quickly to kind of know where the session's going.

And it's not like a long session where they can add in later, which is what happens in the long session.

So it's very disciplined and short.

It'll be very easy for us to figure out which way it's going in a week.

Yeah, um I I just want to thank all of you for coming in, putting it together, getting us money that we need.

Um we are very nervous in the beginning of the this year, where we're gonna lose everything.

Yep, nothing's gonna happen.

But we managed to keep it all on the books and then funding, that's great work.

I always wondered how Mayor was going to DC and helping you guys, but I guess it worked out for us.

So that's great.

You're wondering why I'm not sure.

No, no, no, how you are helping.

But um well, but it turned out great.

So go ahead with all the money.

I I fully support uh Council Hassan's um uh point and every everyone that it does matter.

Uh and even though we know it's gonna be long shot.

Uh but the putting in in our framework uh signals to the communities who's in so suffering that we are trying to find the money to try to find resources.

We're doing whatever we can to support the community.

When we uh tried to codify the sanctuary city or declare uh state of state of emergency that we didn't want it to be performative.

We wanted to back it up with some kind of resources, and this may be one way to go about doing so.

It's a long shot, but we're trying, at least the signals to the community that we are trying.

Um so I fully support that.

Thank you.

Counselor Teter I wanted to ask about the behavioral health court funding.

So we got funding from Representative Salinas, but we haven't gotten it yet.

That funding was underlined.

Does that mean we are waiting on it?

Does it mean there's something special about it?

It was yellow and underlined, the other ones were yellow and not underlined.

It's it was underlined because I added them up underneath the behavioral health court to add up to the six million dollars that you secured.

So yeah.

Okay.

That's the only reason.

So one of my things on council is asking very stupid questions.

No, no, thank you.

Not at all.

Not at all.

Okay.

Uh I'm excited for that, so thank you.

Yes.

Yeah.

And we had a really good and uh when the mayor goes back to DC and articulates the vision and the and the importance of these projects.

Um she has such a good relationship with them, but she also just messages it really well back in Washington DC in the behavioral health court.

Uh she's passionate about all the projects, but she does such a great job of talking about how important that is to the community, getting members of Congress to actually go to the uh what's the last day of the uh graduation ceremonies.

Uh Selinas was there, uh, a number of your members of Congress are there, and and the mayor helped make that happen, and they see the impacts to the community members.

Uh it really changes people's lives.

So I'm really proud and excited to see those funds come back to the city as well.

Great.

Uh so I also notice we are not making another ask this time for behavioral health or mental health courts or treatment courts.

Um is that because we received funding this last time, so we want to kind of hold off and let that do this work.

500,000 should last two years, so it's possibly something that we could do in the future.

But the hope is that there's a sustainable funding model um either at the state or local level ultimately to come in.

But the it's such a popular project that in two years we might consider going after it again.

Okay.

There's also some other federal grant programs that are available that funded in three-year increments.

So it's kind of a bridge to potentially other federal grant opportunities as well.

And I'll just note that um in the last um earmark that we received, they're still working on working through that money and and an extension process with it.

And um to Joel team me up on the state side, um, it is an uphill battle um when we talk about court funding because um we do overlap with the county.

However, we are starting to show some of those seeds across um with our delegation about the great work that our court does and the very reality that we're facing, right?

Um, without state funding in the future, um, and our ability to continue to provide those services.

So those conversations are starting to be had um and we'll be uh bringing that back to you, I think in future years as those continue to develop.

And it's really rare to get an ear mark for a project like the behavioral health core.

And we started by trying to get it funded at the state.

So we spent the entire long session trying to get it funded by the state because this is general fund.

This would be general fund if it wasn't funded, right?

And so when we couldn't get it funded through the state, we moved and basically said we need bridge funding to try to go back to the state to get it long term.

So that's why it was a shorter duration.

Um and we're really work like we're trying to separate ourselves from the county, but really demonstrate that it's part of the entire ecosystem because if we don't see them here, the county then has to see them, and they don't have the budget or the courthouse or the space or the relationships.

Um but it's unique, and I mean mayors from across the country kind of saw the earmark and wondered how we did it.

And so there's a lot of conversations around that at the state that we're pushing.

So this is one time where we went from the state to the federal government and we're trying to go back to the state to fund it.

And maybe we'll know a House member in the future that might help us do that.

So no pressure.

Yeah, thank you.

That that's helpful.

Uh my final comment is just support adding language about consequences for federal agents that break state or local laws in their work.

Um and then I'm comfortable with adding language about uh funding for uh immigrant and refugee needs within like our policy framework.

Uh I wouldn't want to make the ask ourselves if there are community organizations that can do that work better and more quickly.

Um but I feel like you all have heard from council about kind of where we're sitting with that, and I can kind of filter that through.

Um that's all I've got.

Joel, thanks for teaching me what an underline is.

Yeah, I'm an accounting major, so I uh do that all the time.

So that's awesome.

All right, well, thank you for joining us this evening.

It was uh great to see you guys.

All right.

Thank you.

All right, a last agenda item, council new business.

Councilor Tibnon.

I just want to give a shout out to Councillor Kimmy for serving as our council president.

Thank you for your service.

All right, with that, we are adjourned recording stopped.