On April 14, 2026, the Beaverton City Council held a special work session focused on the city's fiscal sustainability action plan. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Beatty, with no public comment taken. Assistant City Manager Elizabeth Coffey presented an overview of the city's services evaluation exercise, which examines how general fund services are classified, funded, and what impacts would result from future reductions. The council discussed key takeaways across multiple departments, including police, municipal court, community development, public works, library, external programs, and support services. The goal was to inform council about service choices and to identify topics for deeper future work sessions.
Will the city recorder please call the role? Counselor Duggar. Councillor Hartmeyer Prigg. Here. Councilor Hassan. Here. Counselor Kimmy. Councilor Teeter. Councilor Tifnon. Here. Mayor Beatty. Here. Okay, as a reminder, this is a special session of the city council, so we're not taking public comment this evening. With that, I'm going to turn it over to our assistant city manager. I'm just going to turn it over to the city manager. Whatever. I'll answer to either. All right. Good evening. I'm Elizabeth Coffey and I'm the interim slash assistant city manager. And I'm joined here today by Dan Weinhammer, the other assistant city manager, as well as members of our executive leadership team and some staff subject matter experts to talk a little bit about fiscal sustainability and specifically our efforts to really evaluate our services. So I'll apologize in advance, I have some allergies this season, so you may hear me have to clear my throat or my voice kind of get a little scratchy. So bear with me. So tonight we're going to go over why service evaluation matters, so why we have chosen to do this exercise as part of our fiscal sustainability action plan. We will go over the services evaluation overview. We'll talk about some key takeaways that apply to pretty much all of the departments that we evaluated. And then we'll take some time to go over services review a little bit more in depth. So we've grouped departments together and we'll share some key takeaways that are specific to those services. We'll pause for five minutes after each service area for a quick five-minute question and answer period. So if there's something that comes up for you right away, you'll have a chance to ask that. But if we run out of time in those five minutes before we move on to the next service, don't worry, just write your questions down and we'll we have a question and answer period at the end. So our goals for this meeting by the end of the meeting, our hope is that council would be informed about the city, the services the city offers and the choices that can be made as we move forward with fiscal sustainability work. We hope that you have the opportunity to ask questions and we'd love to hear your feedback around next steps. In terms of that feedback, we're curious if there's any topics or services that you would like to do a deeper dive into at a future council work session. I do want to be respectful of your time when we're when I'm scheduling special work sessions like this. So I will be listening for consensus for at least four counselors that are interested in doing that deep dive into any particular topic before we move forward. So moving on to why does service evaluation matters? So I'll back up uh real quick just in case there's anybody listening tonight that's not aware, but council has a fiscal sustainability action plan that they've been working on for the past several years, and we recently updated that plan, and there's a number of short-term actions that we're working on that will uh hopefully guide us towards future financial stability. Many of them are related to revenues, but there are some related to expenses, such as the soft hiring freeze that you see here on the screen, for example, uh, where we are being strategic about what vacant positions that we fill. Um and what we're talking about tonight is really service evaluation, and that is taking a close look at all of our services, what's the level of service being offered, and what would be the impact if we reduce that service further because we've made a number of actions over the last several years to reduce our expenses and cut staff positions, as you see here on the screen. And those have had a number of impacts to date. Um we have reduced our proactive uh police bike team, we have eliminated dedicated mental health response team resource, we've reduced our community organization grants that we offer. We've have reduced hours at Murray Shoals Library Branch, and we have overall slower response and project completion time due to reduced staff capacity citywide. Lots of other things that I could list. For example, uh code compliance lost a position, and that means we're able to be less proactive. Um, and we case closures take longer, especially during the busy summer season. And so to make additional reductions, which is something that's part of our fiscal sustainability plan, there will be impacts to the way that we deliver service and the level of service that we're able to offer. So we want council and the community to be able to better understand those impacts. So before we dive into the services evaluation itself, next slide, please, we'll talk a little bit about how services are funded. And so you can see here on the screen a graph from fiscal year 25-26, all of the funds that we have in the city and in our in Bureau.