The Bend City Council held a business meeting on July 15, 2026, covering a range of topics including a shared framework with BPRD, councilor reports, public comments on privacy and youth programs, a consent agenda item on an owner's representation contract, continued deliberation on the Cavity Master Plan, a public hearing on the Bend Central District Economic Improvement District (EID) where objections exceeded the 33% threshold leading to termination, adoption of a resolution for extended enterprise zone tax abatements, approval of an intergovernmental agreement for transit bond funds, and a second reading of an annexation ordinance. The meeting also included discussion on financial tools to support the Legacy Village development.
Okay, the Benn City Council will now meet an executive session pursuant to RS one nine two six six zero two E to conduct deliberations with persons designated to negotiate real property transactions. Representatives of the news media and designated staff shall be allowed to attend the executive session. Representatives of the news media are specifically directed not to report on any of the deliberations during the executive session, except to state the general subject of the session is previously announced. No decision may be made in an executive session. At the end of the executive session, we will return to open session. Thanks. All right, so we are going to go ahead and begin our business meeting for the evening for our city council with a roll call. Let's go from your end, Council Rayleigh. Mike Ryder, EM. Megan Perkins, she, her. Melanie Keebler, she, her. Megan Norris, she, her. Steve Platt, E him. Gina Franzosa, she her. Thank you. And Councilor Mendes's excuse tonight. Um, so we're gonna get into good of the order. We do not have any proclamations tonight. First up is going to be just um a reminder of our shared framework with BPRD. Eric, did you want to talk about that just a little bit? Yeah, email to council, a document that we've been working on with the leadership with Ben Parks and Recreation Board. We meet on a monthly basis. And based on, I think some just challenges over the last couple of months in agreeing to property tax exemptions, some challenges with SDC exemptions. We had a joint meeting a while back. We said let's let's uh think a little bit bigger picture about how we approach this relationship and create a document really meant for elected to elected board uh to uh have us or to create sideboards for staff then to develop more specific uh program tools, uh approaches that would result in ultimately a renewed intergovernmental agreement between the two agencies. So I just wanted to make sure that you all have seen that if you have comments about that document, please just send me those uh comments and then our plan is if there's not really much in terms of changes that we need, I will move right forward. I'll move forward to putting that on your agenda for meeting in August, and that would just be in the form of a resolution that would support that framework. The park board is going to do the same thing that kind of just formalizes the ask. So just wanted to make sure that you saw it, give me some feedback, and then if we feel like we're getting a substantive enough feedback, we might need an intervening work session or agenda item to talk about it. Yeah, and we discussed this over several meetings this year with that small leadership group, and we did try to wordsmith it pretty hard. So um, yeah, I would encourage if you have substantive comments, make sure we know about those. If it's just wordsmithing, you know, that's maybe minor, and we can keep moving forward. And just we're also working on a very similar effort with the school district as well. So yeah, we're at the beginning stage of that. Yeah, we'll behind. All right, thank you. Um okay, that moves us to council action and reports. Um, we did not have any letters um at this point, and then um we do have one appointment. We have um a member who was moved from alternate to the HREC, but needs a little more time, I think, to get familiar and wanted to go back to the alternate status. So we're moving another alternate up. Um so that's what you'll see that Morgan Farnall will be a voting member in uh Navi Hughes and back to alternate. So look for a motion to approve that appointment. Move to approve that appointment. Sorry. All right, move by uh Council Perkins, second by counselor Riley. All those in favor? Aye, aye. Um and then that gets us to councillor reports. Counselor Francis, you want to start us off? Yeah.