The Bend City Council held a hybrid work session starting at 4:30 p.m. and a regular meeting at 7:00 p.m. on November 1, 2023. The work session included an intergovernmental meeting with the Tribal Council of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation, an update on the public safety system, and an Envision Bend update. The regular meeting featured a public hearing on housing code amendments, approval of design contracts for pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, and adoption of a nondiscrimination policy for discretionary funding.
I mean, and when we're ready and we're broadcasting. All right. Yeah, let's go ahead and sit down together. Thanks, everyone, for being here. We're gonna get started with this very important meeting. Um the Benn City Council is honored today to host uh the tribal council of the Confederate tribes of Warm Springs. This is the first of what we hope will be many intergovernmental meetings between our two governments to talk about shared issues and concerns. And we are so grateful to have um our tribal council members here today with us and ready to listen and learn and start to forge this relationship. So thank you, everyone, for being here today. Um we're gonna get started with an invocation, and I believe Wilson you're gonna lead us through that vino true. Shomas Pachu with Sunday show Namash Pachu with Sunnah with Pama Kwan Shah Pachu with Sunnah with today as we start this um meeting with this song among our people. We don't sometimes use word prayers to carry our message to the creator because our prayers, our wants, our needs, our asks are all within the songs that we sing and the words that we sing to the creator. So asking for his divine presence today for the words that he places in our heart that guide us each and every day, and that those things that we learn from our prayers will carry us on into the future is um a little bit the interpretation of the song that I sing to start this meeting. Thank you. Thank you very much, Tribal Council Member and everyone. So as we get settled here, we're going to start with a brief overview of the tribe by Secretary Treasurer and CEO Bob Bobby Bruno. Thank you, Bobby. Okay, thank you, Mayor. Can you guys hear me okay? Yes. Okay, great. So uh yeah, thank you for the invitation and having our tribal council meet with your your city council here, and now I'm gonna talk about the the tribes just briefly here in um better tribes of warm springs. Uh we have a treaty uh that was June 25th, 1855. In that treaty, we reserved rights to fish, hunt, gather our cultural foods, and to pasture livestock on unclaimed lands. And so that's our our treaty of 1855. In the treaty, uh we ceded 10 million acres of lands to the U.S. government uh to exercise these rights in off the reservation. And uh those area here, the city of Ben is within our seated land. So it's uh it's really important to uh to know that and uh to thank you guys for having having all of us here to uh in our our seated lands here where we exercise our rights. Um very very happy about that. And uh the treaty also has a 10 million acres, it also identifies the the reservation, which is uh north of here, about 50 miles, and the reservation is uh 640,000 acres in size or a thousand square miles in size. Uh most of the reservation is uh forested lands. Uh, I know if you have driven through warm springs, uh you see a lot of ranged lands there, and a lot of folks think that that it's uh mainly rangelands, it is not uh the reservation. There's 444,000 acres of land is in forested lands. So uh there's uh we have a lot of forest area. A lot of people are very surprised by that uh because they only see the the dry part of the reservation when they drive highway 26 to Portland. So that's the uh that's the warm springs and our little bit about our treaty, and uh there's three tribes on the reservation. There are confederate tribes of warm springs, there's the warm springs people, the Wasco people, and the Paiute people. So those are the three tribes that make it the Confederacy of Warm Springs. Great, thank you very much. Um, in turn, we were gonna go over just very briefly the structure of the City of Bend government and the city council. Um, this slide here just shows some of our core areas of service that the city government provides. We're a city manager council form of government, so we sit as a policy board, and um our city manager Eric King does all of the day-to-day hiring, firing, and running of the city's operations. Um there are seven members on the city council, including a directly elected mayor, and we're all elected at large by the whole city. And these are the things that we do for our city every day, um, public safety, basic infrastructure, including water, roads, um, and all sorts of other um things that make the city run, as well as you know, trying to think about how we protect our environment and how we promote economic development and work on housing strategies for our for our um residents. Every two years when the council is elected, every two years about half of the council is elected in an election, and every two years we set goals for a two-year period. Um, and this graphic here just represents some of the areas that we've set our goals in and some of the values that overlay our goals. So we have accessible and effective city government, affordable housing and sustainable development, environment and climate, transportation and infrastructure, and public safety. And in each of those, we have specific goals that we want to work on in the next two years, um, overlaid by those values you see there as well. So that's sort of how we're set up, and I think there's a lot of the shared values and goals between um both of our governments and our constituents, and um I think we're gonna continue to talk about that as we move through the meeting.