Welcome everyone to the Cornea City Council meeting for Monday, October 6, 2025.

First thing up this evening is our work session.

First thing on the work session is the parks master plan update.

Barbara Fryer, community development.

Looks like you have guest and guest.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor and Council.

Tonight I have with me Steve Dew from the consulting firm conservation technique.

And he has worked very hard on this project along with consultants from JLA public involvement.

And he's going to be here tonight to go through and give you a brief overview of the parks master plan and ask for any comments that you might have.

And we will come back before you, or I will come back before you with a an ordinance sometime in the spring.

Good evening, mayor, members council, city manager.

Again, for the record, uh Steve, do you conservation techniques?

Um, as Barbara noted, we have a brief presentation just to walk you through.

Is it this one or the executive summary of the and I want book report credit, a hundred and seventy-five page presentation?

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Thank you.

Okay.

All right.

Uh so tonight just walk you through a few highlights of the plan.

So a little about the plan overview, its purpose, uh, what we heard from the public process, a little about the structure of the plan document, granted its length.

And uh touching briefly on goals, policies, and capital project investments.

And there we go.

Um so just as a refresher, the purpose of the parks master plan really is to serve as the city's 20-year guide and strategic plan for all things parks recreation.

So it is intended to help guide and manage and enhance the city's recreation opportunities for parks, for facilities, open spaces, trails, and uh do it in such a way that uh brings the community together through public engagement, public process.

One aspect of having a master plan is not only does it uh provide for guidance for future investments, but ultimately it is a tool for the city to pursue partnerships and potentially other grant dollars and other funding options.

So a little about what we heard from the public process.

Uh the process to hear from the community included a community survey, um, an online open house, and uh several tabling events at city uh city hosted events.

Um that feedback, nearly everyone who took the survey, 97% feel that parks and recreation opportunities are either essential or important to the quality of life in Cornelius.

Uh some of the top priorities that came through all of the public process were expanding trail opportunities, um upgrading the city's playgrounds and adding water play options, uh providing for a community center across the street, and um expanding recreation options in general, such as uh skate park, maybe a second dog park, picnic shelters, places for folks to gather, and sport fields or exercise equipment.

Some amenities of interest are noted in the in the chart to the side uh that really highlight uh what we heard from the public.

So access to water and water play, whether it's water play at a splash pad or uh water via the Twelveton River and access to the river with improvements to uh having safe and reasonable access to uh Twalton River Council uh Council Creek.

Um providing for community center uh farmers market or spaces for folks to gather, picnic areas, etc.

Um eighty-two percent of respondents visit parks on a frequent basis monthly.

And some of the things we heard about why people don't visit more often, it includes things like not having the right amenities or not knowing what's offered or using facilities provided by others, whether it's Hillsboro or Forest Grove.

So this feedback really helped frame what we saw from our site assessments of the park system and opportunities for improving and enhancing over time to fill some of these gaps that the community says they have interest in.

So with regard to the overall plan and plan structure, basically it follows a fairly traditional plan document, uh municipal plan.

Whereas the front end of the plan, the first few chapters provides for the context, the process, and the inventory.

So a little about the community profile, a little about the engagement process and uh park system classifications and inventory.

The middle section of the plan really is the heart of the plan.

It's the needs assessment.

And the needs assessment here is broken into specific chapters dealing with parks and open space, trails, recreation and events, and also a chapter on operations, just to call attention to the fact that the city has finite resources for maintenance and uh growth in parks and recreation will uh trigger the potential need for additional resources to help maintain that over time.

For each of these chapters in the needs assessment, it includes uh a discussion of what we heard from the community via community feedback, as well as recreation trends, and those trends are either regional, state, or national trend data.

Um, and it helps formulate some of the improvement ideas and recommendations that are noted within each chapter.

The last section of the plan really is the goals and the recommendations.

So a chapter on goals and policies and a chapter on implementation strategies, which includes a capital improvement plan or the master project list that will help again guide the next 20 years of investments in the city.

With regard to goals and policies, I just want to step you through how those are structured.

Uh we we broke them into guiding principles and then goals under that and then policies under that.

So the first guiding principle is about leading for the future, and those goals include things related to community engagement, uh collaborative partnerships, and sustainable funding to have the bandwidth and the framework to hear from the community and work on those relationships over time to help make improvements.

Some of the policy language includes topics related to communications and outreach, whether it's the website or active engagement with the community through a process like this.

Also coordination between the board, the commission, and council when it comes to things related to parks and recreation, and then ultimately updating uh the park system development charge or other funding options uh to review in the future.

The second principle is about maintaining and investing in the existing park system, so making sure you have a safe, well-maintained and proactively managed park system, so taking care of maintenance, and then also having uh your open spaces protected and managed for future generations.

So policies in this area again relate to safety maintenance, um, ADA accessibility, site development, uh tree management, as well as coordination with other public agencies, whether it's metro or other partners.

Third principle is about expanding recreation access.

Here it is about available, accessible, and varied recreation, um, also addressing programming and connectivity.

So connectivity between parks, neighborhoods, and other amenities.

So the notion of trails is part of this goal structure.

So acquiring and renovating the communities or the elementary school to be the community center will help expand recreation, providing for trails and uh providing for other recreation opportunities to just provide for more varied recreation in the future.

Last couple principles, uh, one related to growth and development, uh, just ensuring that as the city continues to grow, that there's focus on equitable distribution of parks and availability of parks across the city.

Uh the plan includes some gap analysis that looks at areas of the city that have less than adequate access to parks today, which could be focus areas for future acquisitions, investments, or partnerships, and then celebrating local culture.

Um, and that again ties back to events as well as to programming and just celebrating the the city's culture and heritage and making sure that people are welcome and that events help promote the city's identity.

So shifting a little to the capital improvement plan.

Again, this is the master list of potential projects that's included in the document.

It's intended to serve as a 20-year planning tool.

It's not an official budget, it is strictly a list of projects that staff would coordinate with uh council on for future budget requests down the road to move projects forward as appropriate and as funding is available.

Um the project list includes planning level cost estimates based on today's current cost and are inflated over time.

And they also uh include a sequencing or a suggested sequencing of projects to uh suggest priority.

In terms of some of the key projects that are included in that master project list, the community center and the plaza associated with it will help fill the need for um nearby recreation and having that gathering space and a space for farmers market.

Um park enhancements include things like a splash pad, additional picnic shelters, skate park, uh more paths, uh improvements to the Twalton River Greenway Trail, as well as uh wayfinding in ADA or American with Disability Act enhancements uh to make sure everyone has universal access.

And expansion of the system to include park acquisitions to fill some gaps that I noted earlier, as well as uh pursuing trail acquisitions or easements to make some connectivity improvements over time.

In all, as the pie chart shows, the the way the different project types are broken down, it adds up to current dollars about 39 million, inflated over time is closer to 56.

Again, planning level estimates uh and would each project would come back through city council for future budget review and acceptance.

So that is the brief summary of the document and the process.

And at this point, I'll turn it back for questions, comments.

Council, questions, comments.

Ready to just cut a check, we'll get this all done.

Um I I appreciate the work.

Um, like I said, it's 175 pages.

It's uh it's quite a read.

Uh yeah, a lot of details.

Um, but I I do appreciate uh the staff pulling this together and without a plan, you just stumble forward, right?

So this this puts some guardrails, I think, on our plans going forward and and gives us some ideas to talk and work about, right?

I mean, the one that popped up to me was well, 29th Avenue Trail.

Well, maybe we're not having a 29th Avenue crossing.

So maybe we need to go back and look at what are we doing instead?

Is that branch over to 26?

Do we go out to 341st?

What do we do?

Right.

So there's some there's some there's already opportunities for adjustment uh just as things start to develop.

So those are some of the things, and and I really like the idea of the the water access too.

Um, you know, I'm a big proponent of scouting, and uh this last weekend we just built two dugouts for Forest Grove School District as Eagle Projects, and that was Saturday from 9 to 4.

And there's two new dugouts built.

Um so uh I think this gives us that opportunity to look at those too.

What are these can we bite off and do some portion or small portion through volunteer or community projects?

Um that's how we built the dog park, right?

That was a half dozen different eagle projects, built our dog park and avoided you know, tens of thousands of dollars in work that would have been contracted, but it was good for the kids to learn and invest and enjoy that work.

So I I I see that really helping us with these.

And it was really interesting to see a lot of the community to have interest in access to the water, right?

We're basically bound north and south by water.

It'd be sure nice to be able to access those.

There's some beautiful places down there and to use them more.

That's my two cents.

Yes, Councilor Goodinas.

Yeah, I just appreciate it similar to all the work that you all have done.

I really appreciated going through this and seeing the different parks and seeing like what has a playground, what has a BMX like access, right?

And just all of that listed out.

Um because it really helped visualize what our parks look like and seeing it on the maps.

I think I've seen all of the little map dots before, but just having a diagram like that to really understand it was helpful as to why we need to do certain changes and that explanation.

So a lot of work went into this, and it is long, but it also not really at the same time as you start to go through it.

Um you start to realize, like, oh, okay, like this is helpful information.

I never felt like I was reading something that I didn't need to be reading, uh, which I appreciate when it's a long document.

So I will say, like, this is one of the more enjoyable documents that I've had to go over.

So I really do appreciate that.

It was, I didn't feel like I needed to come in with all of this knowledge because it was all given to me.

The foundation was definitely a laid out for us.

And I'm really excited to see all of the work that we are gonna work towards in those next 20 years, and knowing that we really took our community input is very vital, right?

Because it's not just something that we or you as staff think is important, it's something that our community has kind of laid that work out for us.

So thank you.

Counselor Lopez.

Thank you, Mayor.

And I'll just add, I I enjoyed the profile.

Um if it it's it's nice to have it somewhere in accessible and easy to read um to explain um or the makeup of of the city.

Um I also enjoyed the comparison of the different cities and the budgets and the different parts that they have.

That was pretty interesting.

Oh, why is it so much of you know, we're pretty close in size, but uh a big big difference in the in the budget sizes for their parks.

So thanks for putting it together.

Thank you, council, Mr.

Mayor.

Um we will be back with an ordinance, probably in February or March to adopt this.

Um we will go forward to planning commission first, and I want to say that this has been a great opportunity to build from the visioning.

Um, to build from the urban renewal plan because some of the trail connections and some of the items can be implemented jointly or by one plan or the other.

So that is a big price tag, but keep in mind that some of those projects are in both plans.

Um then it's been a great opportunity to learn from the community what they really want, as you said.

Um, and darn it, if they don't want a splash pad.

So thank you.

Oh, actually, sorry if you don't mind.

Yes, Councillor Lupett.

Sorry, things are starting to click that.

Uh the demographics, uh, um it seemed like we're aging a little bit, uh, looking at that.

Is that the same conclusion that uh you observed?

Yes, the whole metro region is aging.

We're aging less quickly than other areas of the metro region.

Um, and we still maintain the highest um um people per household of the entire metro region.

So that tells me that even though we still have a lot of families, maybe those families are growing up, and um, some of the members of the family might be moving out.

Um, and so we may get a new crop of little ones um through the others that that leave.

Great.

Nothing else.

Thank you.

Next up is our Washington County Cooperative Library Services funding and governance.

City Manager Brandham.

Thank you, Mayor.

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Okay, Mayor and Counselors, thank you.

Peter Brandham, city manager.

I want first to acknowledge Maria Aguilar here, our library director who is uh we're we're arm in arm on this project, and Maria's here to support as well for discussion and questions.

What we're attempting to do tonight is just give you a pretty high-level kind of status of this project, which has been ongoing for about 20 months, a lot of time and effort and and a good deal of complexity regarding the Washington County cooperative library services services funding and also organizational structure.

WCCLS was established in 1976 to coordinate libraries across the county.

There are 16 libraries run by nine cities and three nonprofits.

So it's been in place quite a long time.

We have intergovernmental agreements between the county and member libraries that define the terms and funding allocations and other factors.

Washington County contributes funds from both their general fund as well as a local option levy, which is countywide.

And as of fiscal years 23-24, a couple of years ago, WCCLS contributed uh over $22 million from their general fund and a bit over 16 million from the from that local option levy, and those funds are distributed to those organizations that run the 16 libraries.

City of Cornelius received just over 600,000 from WCCLS for this current year, and contributed a bit more than that from our general fund to support the Cornelius Public Library.

And the proportions of funding from the county and from each of the partners varies greatly.

And so it's it's a it's a mixed bag, it depends on a lot of variables, and so it makes it hard to objectively say you know that the allocations are relatively equitable.

And so that's been part of the complexity and the challenge in this work.

And over the years, the member libraries have expressed concern, including Cornelius back in 2022 and in other venues about inequities and how those funds are allocated.

And so uh, you know, and that's been recognized, and and the county recognized it in early 2024.

They commissioned this study to assess the current future state for funding, coordination of services, and as I mentioned, the structure of the cooperative, which isn't currently on the table but envisioned for a subsequent phase.

The partnership is very diverse in terms of local revenue and resources, demographics, community needs, and other variables, adding complexity to the work.

And as I had mentioned, library directors, the executive committee, and others have developed goals for an updated IGA, and that is what we have been working toward, as well as a uh well, that really that includes a new allocation methodology.

Those goals at the outset were to establish common understanding of current service levels and costs, establish a base level of library services, so really a foundation that all libraries are expected and should be funded to provide to their communities, to evaluate and refine partner roles and providing base level services, identify options for funding base level services, and to inform a uh either renewal or replacement local option levy, and that has become a replacement that is recommended for the November 4th uh election, and to establish a new funding allocation methodology.

So those were the goals going in.

The current funding allocation methodology is based on essentially use.

So patron counts and checkouts and those.

So the busier libraries have therefore attracted more funding in the methodology.

It inherently creates inequity since busier libraries are those that have more local funding available for programs and services that draw people in.

The more you have, the more you get.

The areas are banded into increments of 2500 population.

And then you have that 4.5 FTE per 10,000 population times the value, the average value of that FTE.

And so that's how you achieve a base, a base funding allocation.

And so that's what we're really targeting is an allocation that will support a base level of services, not necessarily the other bells and whistles that libraries may choose to provide.

And I'm intentionally not taking us, I hope, down in too great a detail on this because it it gets quite detailed quickly, and I'm I'm not prepared to get too deep into it.

However, we will be coming back in the future with tangible decisions for you, and we will uh equip ourselves to go into as much detail as you as you like.

And the population is determined by an agreed upon uh map, and that was agreed upon by the the member part the partners who have been in this process that delineates territories around a library based on travel time and distance estimates.

So a sort of reasonable amount of time that a patron would be expected to travel kind of associates them with that with that closest library.

And I can show you in this visual kind of what that looks like currently.

Um I didn't well, I guess I did actually ultimately, sorry, I did include the whole their whole region.

It you know, when you zoom in, obviously you can see a lot more, and there are areas, for example, you can see a relatively large territory north of Cornelius that is kind of considered within the territory of the Cornelius Public Library, and then you see a hatch you see a hatched area between that area and banks where and and forest grove where we sort of share that territory and similar thing you see there to the south.

So those areas, then the numbers within those areas are shared amongst those libraries.

So that uh well you get some density in that one area for libraries, that whole uh if you back that up there, yeah.

In the east part of the beaverton, and uh what is that, garden home?

Yes, garden home, West Slow.

Yep.

And then you go up north to Bethney and Cedar.

They they're uh but those are more densely populated portions of the county, so wouldn't be unusual to see a few more libraries in those areas.

And you know, you can see the tigers got one, Twalton's got one, Sherwood's got one, more like us in Forest Grove.

You know, we got the one library that we kind of interesting.

And there's population to the east side of that county boundary, too, where you know, people are coming in from Southwest Portland because their closest library might be Garden Home or West Slope, for example, or even Tigered.

So yeah, there's a lot of complexity to it, and it's uh probably.

Well, I think we have reciprocity, don't we, with the Tri County, Glackamus and with uh Multnomah County.

I don't know if it's formal or informal.

Multnomah.

Multnomah and Clackamas, yeah.

Not YML.

Okay.

Thank you, Maria.

Yeah, I was gonna say the Gaston didn't make the map, or were they uh bumped off?

Because they're under they're underneath the uh the legend.

Yeah, they are they they got the Cornelius Force Grove treatment, they got the legendary bump off the map.

So this table can uh demonstrate the current in the first column there.

You can see the current number, 611, 293.

That's the amount allocated under the current methodology for Cornelius.

And again, that's that's a bit under 50% of what we allocate for library operations here, and the proposed allocation, which will be an increase of just over five, four hundred and seventy-five thousand or seventy-eight percent.

So for Cornelius, this does in our opinion represent a step in the right direction in terms of the the equity of funding.

It will help us a great deal.

Um you can also see some of the other library, some of the larger libraries like Tiger Twalton and Beaverton, their their proposed increases are more modest.

Yeah.

The one that bites me is the aloe one.

Yeah.

I mean, they you know, they're not incorporated, there's no city contributing to that budget.

There's no city contributing to that budget.

Yep.

Yet they're gonna get their budget tripled, basically.

Yeah.

So that seems a little disproportionate for a group of people that don't want to be governed.

Sorry, I'm just gonna say it out loud.

They're happy to be just unincorporated Washington County, but they all want to have police, fire, and libraries.

Interesting.

Sounds a lot like a city.

Okay, I've had I've said my piece.

And um, as I alluded to before, given increases in costs broadly, especially in personnel, Washington County has submitted a measure for the November 4th election to replace the current local option levy that would increase the rate by 15 cents per thousand of assessed values.

So uh pretty pretty sizable increase there to cover costs.

And next steps include further consultation with the count of county board of commissioners, including a meeting tomorrow in a regular session.

They have had a round table last week and a work session the week prior, so they've been meeting a lot on this, and so the next meeting is tomorrow.

Uh and then that will be followed by a vote of the member libraries, which requires approval of two-thirds of the membership to go to move it as a record formal recommendation to the board of county commissioners with approval of the new methodology and with approval of their placement levy.

The new IGA would be negotiated in the spring to be in effect by July 1st of 26.

And also noteworthy as a subsequent phase of this study will look at the structure of the cooperative.

So I think that's that's what the best we could do at a high level and happy to answer any questions you might have or try to.

Council?

Questions, comments.

Answer Godinas.

Um just curious because I know that there have been some other cities that have been um more vocal about their opinions on this.

And so I'm just curious if you've heard of anything new and what are the chances of that pushback affecting this going through.

Thank you, counselor.

Um I I don't really have a good sense of of the effect.

Um what really happened is that this study kind of unfortunately kind of crashed into the the levy campaign, and so it it kind of muddled it a bit.

It it what was already complex became more complex, and uh a few of the libraries that aren't you know, sort of gaining as much in the new allocation have expressed some frustration.

Um I believe I forwarded an article in OPB to you, so hopefully you have that.

That's kind of the latest from my perspective, and on that, and um, you know, we've certainly had some conversations with the county along the way, and I think we'll just kind of have to see what how that how it materializes further.

And I just want to say I appreciate you um you know keeping us updated on this.

I I know this is probably not a surprise to all of us because we've you know had your meetings with you, and this is a topic you tend to break bring up, and I know there's a lot of complexities behind it, so I just appreciate you breaking it down for us in a way that we can wrap our head around it all.

And I'm really hoping obviously this goes through because this will be great for our library, and I'd love to see more funding and more programming.

Okay.

I I think that's all the questions we have for you.

Thank you.

Wow.

Got done early on it.

We're not pushed up against the end of a uh work session.

So um I think that's all we had until seven o'clock.

So we'll adjourn the work session and uh rejoin council with the urban renewal agency at seven.

Thank you.

Welcome everyone to the Cornelius Urban Renewal Agency Board Agenda.

We are on Monday the 6th in the Cornelius Chamber.

We're on Zoom, we're on TV C TV, and we have wordly live translation.

Uh if you're looking for the information and the passcodes, I think those are in the back uh the room if somebody needs wordly, okay.

So call a meeting to order for the urban renewal agency.

Roll call, please.

Member Delane.

Present.

Member Godinas Valencia.

Present.

Vice Chair Lopez.

Present.

Vice Chair, I think you've got the you're gonna run the rest of the meeting.

I got it started.

Yes.

So uh thank you for that was a first item roll call.

I apologize.

That was the first item roll call.

Um second item on our agenda today is elections.

And we have an empty seat for chair.

And if needed, we'll need to do elections for uh vice chair as well.

Okay, so I got a little script here.

So uh as part of today's agenda, we will hold elections for the positions of chair and vice chair.

These officers will serve for a term of one year.

I will now open the floor for nominations for the position of chair.

Do I have any nominations?

I nominate counselor Lopez for chair, second.

Okay, so all right.

Uh any further nominations.

Okay, no self-nomination.

Okay.

So uh board member Lopez, would you like to address the group?

Uh yes, thank you.

I I accept.

I love it when you do third person.

I love you when you do third person.

It's my favorite.

I accept the nomination.

Uh no need for first speech.

Um, we will now proceed to the election for the position of chair.

Um board member Lopez.

Um has been nominated for uh the chair.

I will call a verbal vote for for each nominee.

There's only one nominee, so please respond with aye if you support the nominee.

Um and remain silent if you do not.

So uh all those in favor of uh board member Lopez for chair, please say aye.

Aye, all those opposed, please say no.

Oh, aye.

I also need to vote for myself.

I apologize.

Uh and um okay.

Looks like that's unanimous.

Okay, so uh now um the vote has been tallied, and uh I have been elected as the chair.

Congratulations to myself.

Um and then we'll do it for vice chair since I was the vice chair.

Now we have uh an opening for vice chair.

So uh do I have any nominations for vice chair?

I would like to make a nomination for board member Godiness as vice chair.

Second.

Are there any further nominations?

All right, hearing none.

The nominations for vice chair are closed.

Nominee Godiness, would you like to address the group?

Uh thank you.

Appreciate the nomination.

All right, moving on.

So um we will now proceed to the election of the position of vice chair.

Uh the nominees are uh just one nominee nominee board member Godines.

I will call for a verbal vote for each nominee.

Please respond with a of your sub if you support the nominee uh or remain silent.

So all those in favor of uh board member Godinus for uh vice chair, please say aye.

Aye, aye, aye.

All those opposed.

Looks like it's unanimous as well.

Um the votes have been tallied, and board member Godines has been elected as vice chair.

Congratulations.

Uh and uh so congratulations to both um board member Godines and board member Lopez.

Uh board member Lopez is elected as chair and board member Godines as vice chair.

Thank you for allow participants.

The new officers will assume their duties immediately.

Thank you.

Okay.

So moving on.

Next on the list we have a consent agenda.

Do we have any questions or comments on the consent agenda?

All right.

I do need a motion for this.

Can I entertain motion?

I motion to approve the consent agenda.

Second.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

It looks like that's unanimous.

Okay, moving on.

So uh we have a oh sorry, any public comment?

No.

Okay.

Nothing online either.

Perfect.

Okay.

So moving on.

Uh we'll move on to the public hearing.

Uh and there is a squirt for this as well, so just bear with me, please.

Um, I will now open the public hearing for resolution 2025-07.

Uh, before I do that though, uh, do any members of city council have any potential conflicts or ex parte communication with regard to the proposed action?

No.

Perfect.

Uh would any member of the audience like to challenge the right of any city councilor to hear the matter before them uh for reason of conflict of interest, bias, or ex parte contact.

Doesn't look like it.

Uh staff will now present the staff report and application.

Ellie Hi, thank you.

Ellie Jones, Assistant City Manager, Business Operations.

So this is a supplemental budget.

Um for the open renewal agency.

This was uh the notice was posted in the newspaper on September 25th of 2025.

It was also posted on the city website.

This supplemental budget includes six items.

Um you should have all of the details in your packet.

Um what we've included is an adjustment to networking capital to reflect audited numbers.

We've also increased the interest revenue budget to based on the current remains that we have within the um the bank account.

We're also um adjusting revenues and expenses um for some new items, so we're increasing revenue to account for the probability lease payments at the Grande Foods Building.

Offsetting that by increasing the expenses, um 279,500 will be transferred to the general fund of the city of Quilmelius to pay the debt service on the Grande purchase.

We're also allocating um about $36,000 to cover City of Cornelius staffing expenses related to managing urban renewal projects.

Um we're also increasing expenses by 91,500 to offset the grant match for the Potsignon market improvements.

We'll be increasing the expenses by 174,000 for the grande building maintenance and ongoing utility expenses as well, and we're also increasing expenses by 47,000 for an estimate of professional services related to urban renewal projects.

So these are the items that we have in the supplemental budget, and I'm happy to answer any questions any questions, any comments?

No looks like no question comments.

Um at this time, is there uh we'll open it up to the audience?

Is there anyone wishing to speak in favor of this proposal?

Not seen on anything online.

No comments, no.

Okay, is there anyone wishing to speak in opposition to this proposal?

Nope.

Looks like there's none.

Um other comments regarding this proposal?

Nope.

All right, so um no comments.

So at this time, I'd like to bring this uh public hearing to a close.

Thank you, Allie.

And with that, that brings us to new business.

Um business uh for today's uh resolution number 2025-07.

Any comments from the board?

No.

All right.

Um, I'd be willing to entertain a motion.

I'll make a motion.

I make a motion to approve resolution number 202507, a resolution of the Cornelius Urban Renewal Agency Board authorizing appropriations amending the fiscal year 2025-2026 budget, supplemental budget number one, and this action takes effect immediately.

Motion made by Vice Chair Goldinas.

Second.

Second by board member Delane.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

All those against or opposed.

All right.

Looks like that passed unanimous.

Thank you.

Any new business?

Anything else to discuss?

Okay.

I'd entertain a motion to adjourn.

I motion to adjourn.

Second.

Second.

Domin.

All right.

Thank you.

This meeting is adjourned.

To the city council meeting.

Monday, October 6th, 2025.

We're on the Zoom webinar.

We're on TV C T V live streaming.

And we also have live translation through the Wordley app.

Information is available at the back of the room for that.

Like to call the meeting to order, and first thing up will be the Pledge of Allegiance.

So please join me.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

Staff, would you please do roll call?

Councillor Lopez.

Present Council President Godinas Valencia.

Present.

Mayor Delane.

Present.

Okay, thank you.

Um first up is our announcements.

Let's see.

I got my first one here.

Make sure I say the right magic words for City Council vacancy.

I'd like to let everyone know that as of September 12th, there is a vacancy on the city council.

Applications to fill this position will be available online.

Questions about how to apply can be emailed to the city recorder.

We'll share more details about the process later in the meeting during the presentation and appointments section.

Thank you.

Takes us to our second announcement, September 15th through October 15th is Hispanic Heritage Month.

Thank you to our community for that.

Um we have October is also domestic violence awareness month.

Um City Manager, is that where the time of your thinking or at the end of public comment?

Okay, great.

Um, because we have a guest with us this evening.

Saturday, October 11th, from 9 to noon is a free electronics recycling event at Free Orchards Elementary School.

Also on Saturday the 11th from 10 to 2 is the fire prevention and emergency preparedness open house at the Cornelius Fire Department.

And Thursday, October 16th, from 9 to 1030 is coffee with a cop at the Starbucks in downtown.

And we also have oh look, the mayor decided to insert an announcement.

Saturday, October 18th, from 6 to 8 p.m.

is a novel evening, a silent auction supporting the public library through the foundation.

We also have on here on announcements Monday, November 3rd at 6.

We'll have our city council work session, and Monday, November 3rd at 7 will be the city council meeting.

And don't forget to vote.

Tuesday, November 4th is election day.

Council, did you have any other announcements we need to add to that list?

Okay.

That takes us into consent agenda.

That consent agenda contains um considered and to be adopted by one motion unless council members or community members request that an item be considered separately before a vote of the consent items.

The mayor shall decide when an item is removed from consent discussion.

Is there anyone wishing to uh adjust any of these items out of consent?

Do we have any public comment asking for that?

No.

Okay.

Do I have a motion to uh approve the consent agenda?

A motion to approve the consent agenda.

Motion by Councillor Godinas.

Do I have a second?

Second that motion.

Second by Councillor Lopez.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

Abstentions?

Passes unanimous.

Takes us into public comment.

Um folks, if you wish to make a comment on something that's not on the agenda, there are cards in the back of the room.

You can grab one of those and bring it up to the city recorder, and we'll add you the list.

Anyone wishing to make comment on an item not on the agenda?

Seeing none.

Did you have any pre-filled out cards, comments online?

No, no, and no.

Okay.

Okay.

Um, actually, we were gonna invite um yeah from the domestic violence.

Uh put my glasses down so I can see.

Oh, there you are.

There's a couple of you here.

Please come up, introduce yourself.

And I I know you guys were uh gonna give us some comment.

Good evening.

Make sure the light is green.

That will mean the speakers on, and you'd kind of have to be the one if you're gonna trade back and forth, you'll want to yeah, just tap it.

Yeah, everybody wants to press it.

It's it's a common thing.

Good evening.

Uh, my name is Rachel Schutz, and I'm the executive director of the Family Justice Center of Washington County.

And I am Megan Arbo, the Development and Communications Director at Domestic Violence Resource Center.

Thank you so much for having us this evening.

We really appreciate um the declaration of October as domestic violence awareness month.

We've come before you several times to talk about the impact of uh domestic violence in our communities, but then also the real importance in uh taking these opportunities to declare these months publicly because of how they raise awareness in our communities and how they continue to offer and show support uh for individuals in the community that are experiencing violence or abuse in their homes.

And I would love the opportunity to have you guys hear what uh Domestic Violence Resource Center is doing in our communities across Washington County to address that, and it is also a big anniversary for them.

That's right.

It's our uh 50th anniversary this year, and um we provide a full range of services for domestic violence victims, including advocacy, housing and shelter, and counseling.

Um, all of our services are free and confidential.

Um we just want everyone out there who's experiencing domestic violence to know that they are not alone, and help is available.

Thank you.

And also the Domestic Violence Resource Center was a founding member of the Family Justice Center here in Washington County, and also the Domestic Violence Resource Center provided that advocacy counseling, etc.

to over 3,500 um survivors in Washington County last year.

That's everything we wanted to share with you guys.

Thank you.

Council, questions, comments.

Yes, Councilor Godines.

Um questions, just I feel like I always say this, but I really appreciate all the work that you all do.

I know it's not easy.

I wish that these were resources that people didn't need, but unfortunately they do.

But I appreciate that there's a center that's willing to offer that and work with the families in really difficult times.

So seriously, thank you.

I know that I've had to refer clients as well, and so just knowing that they feel safe in that space means a lot.

So thanks.

Thank you.

Yes, Councilor Lopez.

Question.

Um so um I work with nonprofits on my um my daily nine to five, and so I uh I'm aware that uh financially it's a tough time for nonprofits.

Um how are the agencies doing?

Um, and how are um community members or audience able to possibly help out uh with that?

Great question.

Um it is a tough time for us, but luckily we have a great community that is behind us in our work.

And if community members want to speak out, contact your legislators, um, ask them to help fund our services, and um just show support.

This is also a great month to show support for those victim service agencies.

I know DVRC, they're doing several drives throughout this month for hygiene supplies, and they're going to begin doing their toy drive for the holiday season.

Um but you're right, it is it has been really tough with the um cuts to federal funding and also um state and local cuts that necessarily trickled down from federal cuts.

Um and so we are seeing a big hit to a lot of different sectors.

We all know that, but um also victim services, which is driving the need up in the community because as doors close, um, need increases.

And unfortunately, we have seen some communities find higher barriers to access at this time.

Um, and that has been we've seen that happen in our communities.

Um, and for me, I feel nervous that this time right now is going to mirror the rise in violence and abuse that we saw during the pandemic.

Um, and so we've been talking internally about how to bolster and how to get ready for increased rates and um increased lethality as well as uh more challenging cases down the line.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh I'll take this opportunity to say I had the unfortunate opportunity to refer somebody to your services, and then I was able to follow up with them, and they said they first they didn't even know this existed, so uh they were thankful I was able to, and that they felt really well served when they came back and talked to me afterwards that they were able to get to the services that they really needed.

They weren't even sure what they needed, and you you folks there were able to help them figure out the frums and twos, right?

Because this isn't something that people do every day or normally do.

It's uh it it they need a little guiding on what's even available.

And I just I just wanted to say that publicly that um that was that particular person's feedback is that it was well organized, they to they felt well cared for and really appreciated um the services you were able to help them with.

So thank you.

Really appreciate it.

Anything else from council?

Thank you for coming out, making the trip, have a safe trip back, and uh thank you very much for coming.

Appreciate it.

Uh, we do have a couple recognition this evening.

First up is uh City of Cornelius outstanding performance certification.

City Manager Bramden, you want to take the floor?

Thank you, Mayor.

So the Oregon Health Authority drinking water program has identified criteria to determine outstanding performance of a community public water system.

The criteria include no violations for maximum contaminant level action level or treatment technique in the past five years, no more than one monitoring and reporting violation in the past three years, no significant deficiencies or rule violations during the current water system survey, and no waterborne disease outbreak attributable to the water system in the past five years.

Those are really lofty objectives.

Our team worked very hard for this designation for years, including an emphasis on it by former public works director, Mark Crowell.

Brian and Will, can you can you join me up here, please?

You're among the more modest of our staff.

This very substantial achievement demonstrates the care, professionalism, and competency of our team led by Ryan Howell, Public Works Operations Manager, and Will Hartman operations lead.

One can argue that clean water is the most important community service we provide.

And we thank Ryan, Will, and the rest of the team for doing the hard work that has led to this recognition of our excellent water system team and water supply.

Have you guys hold that for a photo and we can congratulate the team?

Thank you so much.

Thank you, gentlemen, for uh keeping us safe and uh clean on our drinking water.

Thank you very much.

City Manager, you've got another one.

Uh Civic Education Award from LOC.

Thank you, Mayor.

The League of Oregon Cities Civic Education Leadership Award.

As you know, Itzel joined us in the city manager's office in 2023.

It's El Sayago for those of you who don't know her, but I think everybody does.

After working in our library for several years, it's all grew up in Cornelius and has many skills and interests.

One of them is a passion for elevating our youth voices.

Our youth advisory council was established in 2017.

It briefly thrived.

Then went dormant during the pandemic.

My own efforts to revive the YAC.

Short for Youth Advisory Council.

Failed.

I really did try hard.

It's all stepped in and quickly re-established an energetic, committed, and effective group.

Now up to I think 14 counselors.

We have lots of plans for the group, and it's all is effectively building in succession, so we have a thriving group in years to come.

This League of Oregon City's award is one of only several given each year statewide.

And it was thrilling to present it to her during the annual statewide conference last Friday.

It's Al, congratulations, and thank you for all you do for us.

I think you have some guests here too.

Yeah, come on, yeah.

Come on up, guys.

That's okay.

They need to learn to expect the unexpected.

That's so sweet.

I would like a smaller piece.

Yay!

That was that that's the future leaders of Cornelius I saw there all gathered around Itzel.

And thank you so much, Itzel, for uh getting getting this group together.

Um I think it's a great opportunity for them.

It definitely plays to your passion, and uh it's great to see the that you recognized at the LOC conference.

Um you've again done Cornelius Proud.

Thank you.

Uh that takes us to presentations and appointments.

First up on our presentations is our Oregon legislative update by our representative Susan McLean.

Please approach.

Yeah, right there.

And uh if uh you tap it to make sure it's green on the light on the base.

I think they may have tapped it to red for you while you they left.

Just tap.

There you go.

Okay.

Well, hello, and thank you very much for giving me time on your agenda tonight.

I know you have a really exciting and full agenda, and you've been going probably since six o'clock.

So I will try to keep this concise.

And I really would like um to make sure that you have time to ask questions or give comments.

And so, what I'm gonna tell you is that I didn't bring handouts today, and I'm not going to go over the four pages of summary from the 2025 25 um session, but I do want you to know that I do have a handout that really gives you the main bills that I worked on during the session.

And I would like to tell you that they go over a range of topics.

Um, they go over topics of education uh as a teacher for 42 years.

Uh, that is the subject area that got me to the state capitol.

And it's one of the situations where we have been looking uh at summer learning.

We've been looking at results and trying to make sure that we have a wide variety of support for a wide variety of students, and so we are continuing to work on those goals.

The quality education model, um, I serve on both the budget committee for education as well as the appropriation committee, which meets about four times every other year, and it deals with the quality education model and the goals of the state system of education, and it's basically tries to summarize what are the actual needs for that system to be fully funded.

And so that is something that we look at, and we have we have met the goals in certain areas and not in others, and we're working diligently on trying to continue improvement in that area.

Remembering that we deal with early learning, we deal with daycare, we deal with K 12, and we deal with the higher education.

And so that is through the entire system of items that we cover as far as students from birth all the way through our college and university and apprenticeship programs.

So that is the main area.

There were a couple of bills that had a lot of meaning for me because they came from situations with constituents in our district, which is House District 29.

And I wanted to let you know that House Bill 2299 passed, and this last week, when we were down for legislative days, I was able to be there at the signing when the governor signed it.

And this was to stop what we call deep fakes.

And we have many students and adults who really are finding that there are inappropriate pictures, there are AI pictures that are supposedly of them that are not real.

And we basically updated what it was to actually have someone follow you, not in person but online.

And that has really been one of the favorite bills that we passed in 2025 for safety.

So I think that's important to people of all ages, and it's important in a technical world where sometimes it's difficult to tell an AI writing or an AI photograph from a real thing.

So that was important for me to share.

Cities around the state get 20% of what we raise, and the counties get 30%, and then 50% is kept by the state to work on their part of the system.

Now that's a big deal.

And right now we have a problem, and the problem consists of the fact that the gas tax, the fuel tax, has not produced as much for the highway fund, which deals with the basics of maintenance and operation and dealing with infrastructure, the basics of infrastructure, making sure that we keep our system well oiled and we have patched pavement, that we have the ability to have staff be there during the winter when you need folks to take the snow off the road or the ice situations on the road need to have some help.

It also includes the operation for safety after there have been accidents on the highways and byways, and making sure that that is cleared off for safety of other vehicles.

There are so many things that are just basic and foundational.

This year in 2025, we did not pass that bill, and it was called House Bill 2025.

We worked on it for three years.

We had a tour that was statewide.

That statewide tour, we uh had thousands of thousands of people come and express what they needed in the way of support for their system in the future.

I would say that uh we ended up in a situation where we ran out of time in our our session before we could come to a compromise, even though we halved the cost of the bill, and we also did some more amendments to try and make sure that we could gain support from a bipartisan uh opportunity and audience.

That did not happen.

So we went into special session in September, the House meets first.

We passed that bill in early September, which was the compromise bill that the governor's office helped the legislature put through in the months of July, August, and early September.

Unfortunately, because of an illness, the Senate was not able to meet until the third week, almost the fourth week, with legislative days to finish up that bill, but that bill did pass.

We have a budget now for 25 and 26.

We have some really good bones in that bill that help with policy and help us get to that modernization that we'd hoped to finish up in 2025.

That means more work to come, more partnering to come with our cities and counties, more partnering with people who use our system, which means triple A for our light vehicles and for our truckers and for freight and for all others, including bikes and PEDs and other folks that want safe routes to school and want what we call great streets, which are streets that function for both local and for statewide uses and purposes.

So that is that's where I spend my time.

And we have a number of bills that we hope will help do that.

We also wanted to make sure that we are going to have access for health care for our citizens with all of the changes that are being made at the federal level, both to Medicaid and other parts of the federal program.

We also have really felt that it was important for us to keep our communities growing.

I know in your area that one of those areas is having land and being able to have a future.

There are some definitions and I know you guys have a transit system that runs right through it and all the way out to the end of Washington County here in Forest Grove and you know banks and a lot of different places, but it's important for us to hear from you what it is that you think you need for a thriving community, and we want to help with that, and as your representative, I want to bring that to the state legislature for work in 26th and 27.

So I'm going to end with the fact that we also worked on some bills on justice and social justice and justice that we feel is an equity issue with a wide variety of parts of our community that have not been served as well as others.

And I we can go into that if you have a desire to.

Counselors, any questions for our representative?

Yes, Councilor Gardines.

Thank you for coming tonight.

Um my question is around the summer funding.

So I was just wondering, I know that you all haven't, or maybe you have talked about it, but curious with the cuts that we've seen, what is the likelihood of having summer funds this year to go out to the different districts to be able to offer after school programming.

Well, first of all, I want you to know that one of my two bills in the last short session, which was 24, was uh money for summer learning.

That so we added money in 24 and we added money this year in 25.

There was a change between my bill in 24 and the summer learning bill in 25.

There were some folks in there that wanted to highlight literacy.

Now, I didn't vote for that bill until they made some amendments because I feel that uh summer learning has a wider scope of need.

We have people who need to make up credits.

We and that's usually in our high school setting.

We have people who need to be able to get a particular type of program or enrichment or apprenticeship that work with other nonprofits, and nonprofits can be a partner, but they can't be the leading, uh, they cannot be the leading agency right now.

It has to be through the school setting.

And I'm okay with that as long as they allow partners that we need.

They bring in definitely trying to make sure that we've got high skills and and math and reading, but they also need to have things like I've pointed out just now that really help a wide variety of ages of students.

There are some in the daycare early learning area that just simply need a safe place to go where they can have the kind of activities that will increase their learning abilities, but also that they are being supported so that families can continue to work.

So there's just a lot of areas.

But summer learning has been in the top three of educational issues that I've worked on for about five years, and I've worked closely with the governor's office on that.

So we'll continue to try to add resources, continue to try to sess out what is really needed in the summer learning framework, and continue to see that as part of the forthcoming and support that we can give to a wide variety of students in our system.

I hope that answers your question.

But I'm I'm not trying to cut summer learning, and I'm going to be there to say no, don't cut summer learning.

Let's figure out what summer learning is the most effective.

Yeah, that was my question is if it if you think it's likely to for the funds to pass this year for the 2026 summer.

So let's let's talk about that.

It's not when you if you want to talk about a broad topic like that, I can tell you that in the last nine minutes, months, every single day.

We got up as agencies, as legislators, and as the governor's office, and we had to keep um gathering data on which of the federal funds were gone.

We had to keep adding data on which programs had been almost decimated, and we had to continue to work with how much can we backfill with the taxes that have also been going down in in the state of Oregon for a number of different reasons.

So I cannot give you a definitive answer.

I'm telling you it's on our list of priorities, but we are going to be working till midnight every single night with our bookkeepers, our revenue department, and with uh what we call DAS, our administrative department, looking for ways to cut costs, looking for ways to support the programs that we believe are fundamentally absolutely needed in the next budget cycle, which will be that uh that 27-28 cycle.

But I cannot guarantee to you that we are going to be able, we have $15 billion that are being cut over the next eight-year period from just the federal cuts that we know about today.

So there's no way in any, you know, in a really sure academic way that I can give you a full answer on that tonight.

But understand I care.

And I will be here to try and figure out how to keep those educational dollars at the top of our list.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

Council Lopez.

No questions at this time.

Thank you, representative.

Rhett McLean.

Um I would I would say I I as we move forward, I think the and this is nothing new, you and I have talked about this, um, the continued support.

We need to figure out how to open up our industrial lands to the north as businesses move around the area.

We need to have that opportunity.

We've pretty much filled up the developable industrial land we have within the city to the point that uh we were talking this weekend with uh our Metro Council representative Juan Carlos Gonzalez about the amount of calls that he's received and our city managers received and our development is about the the metro-owned track transfer property from industrial people trying to buy that to develop in Cornelius.

So there's definitely a hunger and interest in industrial land for area.

So I think we really need to figure out a way to open up the conversation about adjusting our urban growth boundary for that 575 acres north of town that we've continued to talk about since 197 about being part of the city of Cornelius.

So I I I would put that on the hot list of things we need to talk about.

And then I think on the other one is obviously if you look through any of the the parks.

There's uh if you if you want to give your staff a little homework, have them read through how much Cornelius has grown in the parks master plan, just the the demographics growth.

And we've exceeded the state and we've exceeded Washington County in our growth to that end, the 123 acres that we um were able to get out of the grand bargain in 2014 is basically completely developed.

Um so that 20-year or 50-year horizon, uh depending whose argument you want to listen to on that, is basically gone.

Um I think you've seen the development.

We are getting more commercial development than downtown core.

We're still working with people on whether we'll get some more apartment buildings in downtown.

So I think that opportunity for to bring more families to Cornelius, right?

People obviously want to live here.

Um, otherwise, you know, Laurel Woods wouldn't basically be fully developed out in its last phase or so that's left.

Um so I think that's really one of the big helps we need because we know you you and I know from our time in this that we're locked at the state level with the the way the grand bargain went through uh for 2014.

So we'll we'll really need your help.

And I know uh our Metro Representative Juan Carlos with his aspirations to be um the Metro president is uh said he is interested and willing to help us work through and figure this out.

So I think I think we need to figure out what venue we're gonna use, how we're gonna open that up to discussion.

I know we have uh strong ties with the um Thousand Friends and the Farm Bureau, um, and we need to bring that to the table and have a an open and honest discussion about how we move forward in a mutually collaborative and productive manner that that doesn't because I I can still hear the the the farm bureau.

Oh, it's the death, it's the death of Cornelius.

And we've added not just an expansion at the John Deere dealer, but we've added the New Holland dealer, and now we also have Bobcat, and we've got um Kubota is bursting at the seams at the south at the west end of town with Hillsborough.

So obviously, ag business is not dead when more egg business continues to move here and develop in Cornelius.

So we we just need I think that's a big ask is your help on helping us move forward and how we open up these lands to to development.

I know the speaking with Andy from the Dyke family, there's an interest to do um development within their properties for certain things too.

So I I think those uh once firmly locked gates to the southeast have opened in uh uh some manner.

So that's really my biggest ask is we need to really start having some honest discussions about how we move forward with all of the neighbors and see who really wants to um join the city, develop their land in that manner um so that we can continue to move forward.

Because that obviously there's interest.

Thank you.

Well, Mr.

Mayor, I appreciate your comments, and I know we've talked about this many times, but um we don't have the problem solved yet, so we have to keep going forward.

I would say one item, and that is that what got me interested in the the legislature was the fact that I came in and and actually was running after the grand bargain.

And I was running because of education, but also because I felt like there had been good work done, and that there had been, you know, finally something for House District 29 that actually included all three areas and cities.

And so it was a big disappointment for me.

I will say that you and I both know that we live in an area where there's a constant competition for resources, whether it's land or water.

I choked myself when I was talking there, but thank you.

I know that you have a wonderful youth group behind me that is dying to present, and they've been out there practicing.

I saw them practicing when I came in, so I know it's gonna be great.

So please um let me know if you need anything else.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Yeah.

And with that, we have our youth advisory council update up next.

Please uh I have a list of uh presenters, but I'm not sure if they're all the ones coming.

We'll let you uh introduce yourself.

So youth advisory.

I've got uh Marisol Mael Maeli, Adrian and Christina.

Hello, City Council members.

Thank you for giving our members from the Cornelius Youth Advisory Council this time to update you on our current season and give you insight on some events where you might see us in the next couple months.

My name is Adrian, and I am the new co-chair for the council.

My name is Christina, and I am the new secretary.

My name is Marisol, and I'm the social media officer.

My name is Maeli, and I'm the vice chair.

This season, our council is made up of 14 youth residents from Cornelius.

Together, we have contributed over 325 volunteer hours at city events and other projects, which we will highlight later in the presentation.

Our members come from four schools: Century High School, Jesuit High School, Forest Grove High School, and Glencoe High School.

This fall, we will be recruiting new members to replace two graduates who are now in college, which will temporarily bring our group down to 12 members.

With support from our advisor, Itsel, we'll be doing classroom presentations and staffing booths at Glencoe and Forest Grove High Schools.

Our goal is to grow to 15 active members.

Now we would like to share one of our exciting projects this season, our youth art gallery.

Our original project was applying art on trash cans throughout throughout the culture district of Cornelius.

This unfortunately did not work out because we did not receive the grant we had applied for.

Sorry.

The which we still carried which carried out our prompt to create art.

We used a Google form to let participants submit their art to submit their art.

We did have some few limitations to these to who could submit art.

Those limitations had to be whoever drew the art had to be in kinder through twelfth grade and had to live in Washington County.

We advertised the art youth art gallery by hanging up flyers, posting on social media, and spreading word of it.

Our goal was to obtain thirt 13 art pieces, and we successfully surpassed it.

To showcase the art, we had we had a booth at the Cornelius Farmers Market where community members could stop by and admire the art pieces.

Building on our goal to engage the community and promote creativity, Yak was invited by the Public Infrastructure Advisory Board to help with to help assist with the potential project about investing in QR codes that would state a fun fact or activities around the city parks.

We wanted to see how many people would try the QR codes, so we added them to our annual scavenger hunt at events like Flix at the Park and National Night Out.

You can see the results on the slide.

Wow.

342, nice.

The QR activity included a learning component.

Many people needed help scanning the code and understanding how to complete the activity.

Without our help, they likely wouldn't have been able to participate.

Once the QR code activity was completed, the person would be rewarded with an extra ticket to use in a drawing to win a prize.

Without the reward, it would be that likely or fewer people would have scanned the QR code to read the information or complete the activity.

Based on this experience, the Youth Advisory Council recommends that the public infrastructure advisory board does not invest in QR codes at city parks.

Instead, we suggest creating community boards or display cases where flyers and important information can be placed.

This information should be bilingual in both English and Spanish to ensure that it is accessible to our entire community.

The first four Fridays in August, we hosted a movie event called Flicks at the Park.

This year we showed the movies Lilo and Stitch, The Wild Robot, School of Rock, and Selena.

Additionally, at our movie events, we hosted our annual Scavenger Hut, a drawing and handed out swag that correlated with the movie.

Yak had a great time serving and volunteering for the community, and we are more than excited to continue this event next summer.

Later this year, yeah, we'll be participating in a few upcoming events, like the annual community dinner where we will help serve food and help with the arts and crafts.

Then for the annual tree lighting, we would help lead the crowd from the tree lighting at Veterans Memorial Park to the old Cornelius Elementary School building, where we will help serve hot champurrado and manage the Santa Photo line.

As for upcoming projects, we have one major project, the Mural Project, which we will go over on the next slide.

This year we had planned to apply for the Metro Placemaking grant, but we're unable to secure a nonprofit sponsor for the application.

In the past, we have applied for this grant, but we're not awarded funding.

If awarded, the funds would support our mural project, which aims to bring meaningful Latin X representation and public artistic expression expression to the city of Cornelius.

We reached out to both Centro Cultural and Virginia Garcia to explore a possible collaboration for this project.

As part of the project, there will be a community voting process to select both the final mural design and its location.

The selected artists will receive $7,000 with an additional $2,000 for materials.

Phase one of this project consists of developing and designing marketing materials to promote the project.

Phase two consists of participating in local events to further promote and also recruit the mural artists.

Phase three focuses on community feedback.

We plan on sending out a survey to gather community input on the preferred art piece and mural location for the installation.

In phase four, we will reveal who won and was awarded the money.

And then celebrate the artwork being integrated into the cultural district and finally bring the mural to life.

Again, we want to thank you for your time.

Are there any questions regarding anything we went over?

Council, any questions?

Counselor Godens.

Firstly, thank you so much for giving us this presentation.

This was great.

And to you know, add this extra responsibility and give back to your community is honestly I can't, words can't put into place like how thankful I am and how excited I am for you all.

I really hope that one day you all are the ones up here.

I I definitely see that in your guys' future.

Um I guess my question for you all would be I see a lot of these projects.

Are there other ideas that you all are working on that you're thinking about?

I think this mural project is great, and I would love to see how we could get this going and what other grants are available.

But outside of that, are there other things you all have kind of talked about getting going?

Um other ideas.

No.

Um we have not talked about other ideas getting going.

Um it doesn't have to be a big project like this.

It could be even just like at movies at the park, like in, you know, we did this this year and we'd love to do X next year.

Some things like that, maybe based off some of the projects you all have already done, maybe something you want to build on within those projects.

We plan on continuing our flicks of the park.

Um I'm not sure if we want to we haven't really talked about building off of like adding anything onto the flicks at the park, but I'm sure we will in the future.

Um for other projects.

Uh with our upcoming projects and events, um, I mean, we plan on um expanding on our community event um engagement with our annual community dinner, annual holiday, tree lighting, and fire department open house.

But that is what we've talked about so far.

And that's a lot.

So I want you all to be proud of that.

Council Lopez.

Thank you, Mayor.

Just a couple comments.

Just uh again, similar to what um Councillor Golden has mentioned.

Thank you for the hard work that you're uh putting in.

Um I'm hoping that uh you guys are picking up a lot, getting a lot of new skills like public speaking, great.

It's gonna be it's gonna look awesome on your resume.

Um you guys will be leaders at some point.

You'll be either on this side and police departments, firefighters, take opportunity of um the access that you have now to explore.

Um in any of your projects, if you guys need assistance, feel free to reach out uh to the council.

I think uh a lot of us would be more than willing to help out or we can.

So thank you again.

Um I I'd like to thank you all.

Um I have great memories with the original uh inaugural members of our YAC and and some of the adventures we had together.

So I'm sure I I've seen some of the stuff it's all's been doing with you guys, and it's it's pretty awesome.

Um I want to thank you for highlighting the QR code limitation, right?

You guys brought some data to that analysis.

Um so many times I talk with other uh leaders around the county, and like, oh, QR codes, they're the end all be all.

And I I think you guys really illustrated there are limitations, right?

They aren't the one and only answer.

So thank you for really bringing the data to that.

I I am sure I will uh share and beat the other mayors with that data.

So thank you.

Um looking for partners.

I don't know if you guys have considered, but you know, we have a library foundation that's a 501c3.

That is another group that's really into supporting the community.

I would encourage you to um sit down, talk with them.

Uh I have a direct connection since my wife is the president, current president of the library foundation.

So if you guys would like to some help, I'm sure It's old and you and I can set up some time for you to meet with uh Jill and uh talk about maybe their opportunity to be your sponsor in something like that.

And um I know I would be remiss not to mention Arturo.

Uh he's done murals, he's a local artist.

I went through the Ford Family Foundation training with him, and I'm sure he would be very excited and interested because he's uh nipped me, you know, about once a year in the community about when are we gonna do mural?

I'd love to do a mural.

So if you're uh interested in doing murals, let's uh make sure we uh float that offer by uh Arturo and see if he would be uh something that you guys would like to be interested in.

So but again, thank you for coming out and doing this, and uh thank you for your going down to the state legislature with me earlier in the year and uh representing the the work for the community center.

Um I'm just so excited for your futures.

It I can barely contain myself.

Thank you.

Okay.

Actually, I just want to know where I get a sweater.

You got you gotta volunteer, you gotta put in some hours, I bet.

I've got a couple of them from previous ones from how these sweatshirts, that's how I had to do it.

Lots of hours.

Uh let's see, we did that, we did that, we did that.

Um next up, speaking of membership for the youth advisory committee, youth advisory council appointment.

Um we have a proposal for Ricardo.

Uh Ciago.

This is a common refer recurring name.

Is this name is is there any relation, ITSL or something I was wondering.

Okay, that nothing wrong with that.

Get the family involved.

Uh is there a counselor who'd like to make that recommendation?

Are we doing it right now?

Um maybe it does come back up under new business.

Yeah, I didn't see it back there.

So yeah, I'd entertain a motion to appoint.

I make a motion to approve the appointment of the following youth advisory council member Ricardo Sayago to position 14 to serve through December 2027, and this action takes effect immediately.

Motion by Councillor Godinas, do I have a second?

Second that motion.

Second by Councillor Lopez.

Uh any further discussion?

Um just a point of quite question.

I heard the uh motion was through 27.

The agenda report says December 26.

Do we have a concurrence on which date it is?

It's all is gonna square us away.

He's uh senior, so he would be just going till the end of the year.

So he's graduating, but he's coming for he's already started uh participating and earning his hours.

So he's I think he's only till the end of the year of this year, December 26th.

Okay.

It's only a few more few more months.

Okay.

According to the bylaws.

By loss, because it's yeah, once they once they graduate.

Okay.

Is that a friendly amendment to December 26th?

Yes.

Second, do you concur?

Yes.

With motion, the concurrence.

Um all those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstentions?

Passes unanimous.

Welcome aboard, Ricardo.

Yay.

Okay.

Next up is our city council recruitment timeline and application.

City recorder.

I just want to let the YAC members know that they can sneak out right now.

I will not be offended.

Yes, you you can absolutely leave now.

It is okay.

Or if you have no homework to do, you're welcome to stay and witness the awesome spectacle that a city council.

And I there they go.

Thanks, guys, for coming out.

And there went half our audience.

All right.

Thank you, Mayor and Council.

Uh this item is to review the draft city councilor application and proposed recruitment timeline for filling the current vacancy on the council.

Uh per the city charter and the Cornelius municipal code.

When a vacancy occurs, it's a council or council's role to review applications, hold interviews, and appoint a new member to serve for the remainder of the term.

This process helps ensure that our council remains complete and representative of our community.

The approach we're proposing is very similar to what was followed during the last council appointment in early 2023.

The goal is to make the process open, fair, efficient, giving residents enough time to apply while keeping the vacancy period as short as possible.

Here's a brief overview of the proposed timeline.

Public notice of the vacancy would begin immediately with information posted on the city's website and included in the October Gazette.

The application period would remain open for two weeks, closing on October 22nd.

That gives staff about three days to review the applications for completeness and qualifications to prepare them to be included in the November council packet.

And I just want to clarify that qualifications were not reviewing them for uh background or education.

It's for uh are they a registered voter?

Have they lived in the city for the required 12-month period?

Uh the council interviews would be conducted during the November 3rd work session with each candidate allotted 15 minutes and a brief break in between.

Uh following the interview, council deliberation and the appointment would take place during the November third regular session.

And that would allow the new counselor to take the oath of office and be seated at the December 1st council meeting.

Um the schedule keeps the process moving efficiently while still giving the public ample opportunity to apply and the council time to thoughtfully consider applicants.

I do want to note that the timeline is intended as a guide and may shift slightly depending on the number of applications we receive and any other scheduling factors.

If there's a high volume of applications, for example, we may need to adjust the start time of a work session or consider other options.

Um I'm happy to answer any questions or make adjustments based on your direction.

Council, questions, comments.

The only one I'd introduce um having gone through a complete reformation of the council.

I I would be fine and recommend that we just uh if we interview, if we get all the interviews done on the evening of November 3rd, I would like to appoint and swear in simultaneously.

That would be my only recommended changes.

Let's get him on board, get him seated that evening and get going.

Um I've lived through the recall of three counselors where we had to reconstitute that night.

So I know we can do it fast if we need to.

And I don't think that's I don't feel like that's unnecessarily quick either, because we'll have we've already had like three people raise their hands in interest.

So I think there's definitely um just getting the applications open, we'll start to see people come in.

Uh I got uh I'm gonna go with uh four applications.

Anybody want to raise me on that?

We'll get more than four.

Okay, okay.

So you're lower, you're gonna go under Councilor Lopez.

Four over under.

I'm new to this, so um I'll say three.

So you're under.

So I got it at four, and I got two counselors under.

So you can put that in the minutes is our uh our estimated application numbers.

Mayor says four, counselors say less.

So uh council, how do you feel about pulling that in to appoint uh interview and appointment and swearing in all in one night?

You guys good with that?

Counselor Gordinas?

Yeah, I have no problem with that.

As long as um city staff doesn't believe that'll be an issue or there's anything affecting that.

I am happy to make that change to the timeline.

My only consideration is um the time that we would allow staff to do any onboarding um about parliamentary procedure, um, the resources the city has, give them a tiny bit of training before they're actually set at the dais.

That's fair.

I actually think that's that's a really good point.

I'm I'm open to the the will of the council.

Counselor Lopez, you want to go November?

You want to give them a little give them a month on board.

I didn't know there was on board didn't I just get like you're here, congratulations you're on.

Yeah, you're not so uh um but yes, I I I think onboarding um is necessary.

I I think uh it's nice to receive it.

So um I'm okay with that.

So decision on the on uh November on uh swear in, they allow them to do onboarding from November to December, and then uh swear them in on the okay.

I'm fine, I'm fine with that.

That seems reasonable.

Thank you.

I am working on developing a more robust onboarding uh process.

I have a checklist and many items to share, so I look forward to that opportunity.

Yeah, I mean, we haven't had a lot of townsil turnover, but I almost feel like uh I'm going through my fantasy football league.

We almost need a bench.

It's like these are okay, these two are all straight trained, you know, and then we always joke the planning commission.

We we steal some of our best planning commission folks, right?

That's historically been uh a ground to bring counselors on because they've already had the quasi-judicial training and stuff, and they you know understand the meetings and all that.

So we'll it'll be interesting to see if anybody applies from the planning commission.

Cool.

Anything else you need from that city recorder?

You're good?

Okay.

All right.

We did that.

Oh, proclamation, domestic violence awareness month.

I would love to read it, but I don't have it ready.

Does somebody already have it ready?

Or I can go find it.

Sure.

Yep, Counselor Godinus, if you have already go ahead and please read through.

City of Cornelius, Oregon proclamation, domestic violence awareness month.

Whereas domestic violence is a serious crime that affects people of all races, ages, genders, identities, socioeconomic levels, religions, backgrounds, beliefs, and abilities, but often has a disproportionate effect on communities and groups impacted by inequity, and whereas domestic violence includes physical, emotional, social, sexual, spiritual, financial, and digital abuse, and can occur within families as well as other intimate relationships.

And whereas Oregon sees higher rates of violence and abuse than the national average, with 42% of women and 39% of men experiencing domestic violence, and whereas domestic violence impacts children, as approximately 50% of Washington County children who are child abuse victims, also live in homes with domestic violence.

And whereas witnessing domestic violence and experiencing abuse in childhood increases the likelihood of addiction, mental health, learning, and other channel challenges later in life.

And whereas in 2023, the Family Justice Center served over 5,600 survivors, and the domestic violence resource center fielded 3,988 crisis line calls and provided a total of 10,630 crisis services.

And whereas our Washington County community has united together to aggress to address the impact of all forms of family violence, including domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse through our family justice collaboration, collaborative, and whereas domestic violence incidents are some of the most complex and dangerous incidents that law enforcement respond to in our community, putting their lives at risk every day to hold offenders accountable and work towards ending the cycle of violence, and whereas domestic violence awareness month shows support for and provides the citizens of Washington County the opportunity to learn more about preventing domestic violence and support for the numerous organizations and individuals who provide critical advocacy resources, hope, and assistance to victims.

Now, therefore, we the city of Cornelius, we the City Council of Cornelius, Oregon, do hereby proclaim the month of October 2025 as domestic violence awareness month in recognition of the many advocates, crisis hotline staff, victim service organizations, and uh prosectors who hold offenders accountable, and the law enforcement officer in our community dated this sixth day of October 2025.

Jeffrey C.

Delane, Mayor.

Thank you for doing that.

Prosecutors.

Sorry, that was a good thing.

That's okay.

Great.

That takes us into public hearings.

First up, we have resolution number 2025 number 48, a fiscal year 2025-26, supplemental budget number one.

Here comes our staff.

Let me go through the official thing.

I'll now open the public hearing.

Do any members of the city council have any potential conflicts or ex parte communication with regard to the proposed action?

Seeing none.

Would any member of the audience like to challenge the right of the city council, uh, any of the city councillors to hear the matter before them for reason of conflict of interest, bias, or ex parte contact.

Seeing none, staff will now present the staff report and application.

Thank you.

Um Ellie Jones, Assistant City Manager.

So this is a public hearing for supplemental budget one for the fiscal year 2025 to 2026.

The supplemental budget was advertised in the local newspaper on September 25th, 2025, and it was also posted on the city website.

So we have um several items within the supplemental budget, and I can go over those.

We are increasing the general fund revenue uh for contributions from the urban renewal agency.

279,500 to cover the debt service for the Grande uh building purchase, 91,500 to cover the grant match for the Apot Signal market improvements, and 12,000 to cover staffing expenses related to urban renewal management within the internal services fund.

We'll also increase revenue by 24,000 to cover staffing expenses related to urban renewal management, and the general fund we're increasing community development expense by 34,682 for the Potsigan market improvements, 213,182 dollars of that will be offset by an Oregon Parks and Grant.

Um revenue is also increasing to offset that expense.

The fire department expenses are increasing by $35,000.

That is revenue received for the wildfire grant to cover staffing costs.

We also increasing the revenue and the library expense by $5,872 to reflect the increase in the city's allocation for MWCCLS within the internal services fund.

We'll make an increase within the city manager's office expense budget by $7500 to cover some additional professional services.

And we'll also increase the facility expenses by $1,120 for some additional building operations and maintenance.

And lastly, we'll increase the traffic development fund expenses by $50,000 to cover the TB Highway Transit and Safety Project contribution.

These are the items included in the supplemental budget, and I'm happy to answer any questions.

Council, any questions?

Council Lopez, any none?

Okay, no questions.

Thank you.

Staff.

Is there anyone wishing to speak in favor of the proposal?

Anyone online, city recorder?

No?

Okay.

Is there anyone wishing to speak in opposition of the proposal?

Anyone wishing to make any other comments regarding the proposal?

Okay, with that, the public hearing is officially closed.

The city council will formulate findings and conclusions and take action by specific motion and vote.

The motion will be for the approval or denial by majority vote of those present.

Okay, that's the end of our public hearings.

We have no unfinished business.

That takes us into new business.

Resolution 2025 number 48, the fiscal year 25-26, supplemental budget number one.

Ms.

Jones, do you have anything else to add?

I didn't think so.

Thank you.

Uh council.

Questions, comments?

I would entertain a motion.

I make a motion.

Um I make a motion to approve resolution number 2025-48.

A resolution of the city.

Motion by Councillor Lopez.

Do I have a second?

A second.

By Councillor Gerdinas.

Any further discussion?

Say none.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstentions.

Passes unanimous.

That takes us to resolution number 2025-49.

Library meeting room policy updates.

Staff is Maria Aguilera, Library Director.

Thank you, Maria.

Um I am bringing the policies up to the city council for review.

Um the policies were set in place back in 2019 when the library first opened its doors, and we needed a policy in place for the meeting room use.

Uh since we have been operating in 2019, we have not reviewed the policies with the use.

We have encountered some situations that were not addressed in the policy, and so those have been added to the meeting room.

Um we also made the language uh gender neutral and in a more positive tone so that we're more equitable and removing as much of the bias as as is possible.

The library board reviewed it.

And um we did update the fees schedule to include the Drake Learning Center.

Uh that was one of the intentions when the space was created so that we can have it available for the community.

Um, and the board is currently working on that uh policy.

But whatever we do with this one will help shape the other policy.

So if you guys have any questions, I'm happy to answer council.

Any questions?

Um, the only one I had is the uh when I was reading through the the PowerPoint was um I think there was a copy and paste error.

Maybe you can check that on the maybe it's another one of those.

Um the Drake Learning Center was called um I think the boardroom again or something in the PowerPoint.

The what?

The the boardroom.

I think it got recycled.

The name got recycled twice in the uh underneath the pictures of which rooms were which.

Oh, sorry, yes.

Yeah, I thought I figured it was just a technical difficulty, but we can check that maybe we get it updated before we go to post on the minutes.

Okay.

Any other questions, comments?

See, I'm I am actually reading these things.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

I'll entertain a motion.

I make a motion to approve resolution number 2025 49, a resolution of the Cornelia City Council updating library meeting room policies and fee schedule, and this action takes effect immediately.

Motion by Councillor Godiness.

Do I have a second?

Second that motion.

Second by Councillor Lopez.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstentions?

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um we have resolution number 2025-50, repealing the 2008 records retention policy and adopting a records management policy.

This is by our city recorder, Michelle Bateman.

Good evening again, Mayor and Council.

Uh tonight we're asking you to consider adopting a new public records management policy to replace the city's 2008 records retention policy.

That ensures compliance with current organ public records law, aligns with best practices, and addresses modern record keeping formats.

Uh, there's a few key changes that I'll highlight.

The policy expands guidance to include email, text messages, instant messaging, social media, and unified communications.

It clarifies that retention is based on content, not format.

It emphasizes emphasizes minimizing use of personal devices for city records and requiring prompt transfer of any records created on personal devices to an official system.

It establishes clear roles and responsibilities for staff and department directors.

It provides updated procedures for retention, storage, retrieval, and unlawful destruction of records or lawful district.

That would be what we want, yes.

It supports the city's implementation of the Oregon Records Management Solution, ORMS to centralize and streamline electronic record keeping.

Adopting the public record management policy modernizes the city's approach to both paper and electronic records.

The policy reduces the risk of lost or improperly managed records, improves efficiency and accessibility, and helps preserve the city's institutional history.

If adopted, the policy will be implemented citywide.

Staff will integrate these procedures into their daily workflows, including transitioning eligible records to ORMS.

Necessary training will be provided during necessary employees onboarding and at least once every two years thereafter to ensure record management staff understand their roles and responsibilities under the new policy and comply with retention, storage, and destruction requirements.

The policy was reviewed by the state archivists and by uh some of our senior leadership for their feedback for several revisions.

And I'm happy to answer any questions.

Council, any questions?

Seeing none, I would entertain a motion.

I make a motion to approve resolution number 2025 50, a resolution of the Cornelia City Council adopting the city public record management policy and repealing the 2008 records retention policy.

And this action takes effect immediately.

Motion by Councillor Dinas.

Do I have a second?

Second that motion.

Second by Council Lopez.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstentions?

Passes unanimous.

Takes us on to resolution number 2025-51.

Public facility naming policy.

And our presentations by Barbara Fryer, community development director.

Good evening, Council and Mr.

Mayor.

The resolution number 2025-51 establishes a policy for naming public facilities.

We have had a policy for naming parks for quite some time.

It was first adopted in 2018 and then it was amended in 2021.

And this expands the concept out to other types of uses to include any number of other types of facilities.

So it would include things such as parks, bridges, plazas, monuments, buildings, and other assets owned by the city.

So if the public infrastructure board wanted to make a recommendation to name something, um you folks would be the uh deciding factor in that decision making.

Um day and consistent with the way the parks are named today, the criteria would be very similar.

It would be the same things that we look at today for parks that it reflect the name reflects a natural or cultural feature associated with the city, the name represents a historical event or person.

Um reflects an abutting street name, um an individual who is non-living who provided exceptional service in the interest of the park system, but in this case it would be the city as a whole.

Um then the name is associated with a person living whose contribution or significant gift is of a most extraordinary nature.

The uh the proposed resolution, as I said, expands it to include additional facilities.

Um it also would specify that the name is not associated with a past or present city employee.

Um then the public infrastructure advisory board would be the appointed body.

Um we merged the public works advisory board and the parks advisory board.

So now they're one and um neither one of them are named in the previous um resolution, so now you have an appointed body that would review this criteria, and they would make a recommendation to you in the form of a resolution on future naming.

And I'd entertain any questions you might have.

Council?

Any questions?

Yes, Councilor Lopez.

Thank you, Mary.

Just one question.

I was just curious.

Um the last one on not naming um a location after a city staff pastor previous.

How'd that come to be or I was just curious?

I thought that was like a oh, someone did great job as so-and-so, and let's name um call-de sac or something after this person.

The the uh idea came about um as employees are compensated based on their um employment package.

And so the idea was that that that should be sufficient for city employees.

Okay, got it.

Thank you.

You know, something something auspicious for Mark.

You know.

So sorry, I can't help myself.

It's just the way my brain goes.

So um would that have precluded us from naming the Drake Learning Center after Rob Drake?

Yes, it would be.

I can't find myself in support of this.

I I think that was appropriate.

I mean, I I thought it was okay.

That's the I think that's about the only thing I've got concern with on this policy is that uh recognition, because you know in hindsight, I still would have named Drake Learning Center after Rob Drake.

I wouldn't back away from that one.

But he still does, you know, he's living, he may give us an opportunity to regret that decision.

Council, any other questions or comments on this?

I'm kind of with you on that.

I think that's why um how do I want to phrase it?

I I totally understand, right, that staff is compensated for the work that they do, but I would also say that our staff does a lot.

I mean, you all do so much that I feel like, yeah, we pay you all, but to some degree I feel like Yes and no, like that sounds terrible saying that, but you all go above and beyond.

And so if I could, I would name parks and things after all of you all to really recognize all the amazing work you've done.

So I think this was just hard from that standpoint, but I also get it from like an equity standpoint too, because if you name one, then why not everybody else, right?

Um so I think I'm just like having this internal battle between the two because I recognize you all do amazing work and I would love to offer that, but I understand that it's not actually possible to name everything after everybody.

So if this is what staff, I mean, I trust that you all talked about it as staff, and this is something that came up.

So um I I trust in your opinions, and if this is what makes everyone most comfortable, then I will agree with this, but I do echo a lot of the similar concerns that you all have.

Uh yeah, I'm just thinking out loud, just um.

Uh never, I'll keep those thoughts to myself.

I was thinking about an exception or something of 10 years or something, but uh it's kind of the same idea though.

I think it comes to the same thing.

It's who qualifies, who doesn't, and who decides um you know what the criteria is for someone qualifies.

So I I think it's probably best as it as is for now.

City manager, you look like you had a comment.

Not so much comment.

I um I do have opinions on this, but it it doesn't matter because it's your decision.

And I was just curious, Barbara, if if you would see a path for exceptions in the future if if the policy state is written.

The council can always make exceptions.

Um because you are the legislative body.

This is the criteria that the public infrastructure advisory board would be um beholden to to make recommendations to you, but it would be something that you folks could always override.

And I wonder to that answer, is that even a possibility?

We just state that, right?

I mean, these are the guidelines, but is there a way we because it's easy for councils in the future to look at this and go, oh, this is the rules.

I mean, what do you gotta how much work is gonna be to change this?

The staff time and and maybe that's just all we're looking for.

Is that stated expectation that you know exceptions to these rules may be um proposed or overridden or something by um you know majority of the council.

What do you think about that idea, Barbara?

Um that's a great idea, Mr.

Mayor.

But also if you look at section two, it says that the public infrastructure advisory board shall make a recommendation for the naming of the facility to the city council based on the criteria above.

It doesn't say anything about what your decision is.

But the council decides, we can go completely sideways on you.

We've never done that before.

So section three says that the council shall be the final authority for naming of the public facilities.

And so, in my view, that gives you the authority to override what the public infrastructure advisory board recommends and choose to go another path.

Okay.

What do you think, Council?

Is that enough is that enough uh gray margin to work in?

I think so because I I also recall like we didn't come up with the name, right?

That name, the Rob Drake Learning Center was a name that was proposed to us.

And so I I think I'm okay moving forward.

Um I I'm in favor of having things written down in most cases.

Um I think uh we'll move on and someone else will come in and you know I don't think no one's gonna look through the archives about this, but um that that would be my preference, but um I'm willing to accept it as is, but just yeah.

I I I tend to lean where where you're going, Council Lopez, that if um boards, committees, and commissions tend to pencil inside the lines, you know, color inside the line.

And if they don't understand that's a possibility, they may have they may take a good idea off the table before it ever gets to us due to that.

So I'm not sure how to convey that, right?

In the written word, not in the in the margin, but is how is that and maybe I mean maybe we just maybe we use the Drakey Drake Learning Center as an example of a decision where this wasn't followed, and maybe the documentation of that in the if you don't think that's too terrible, um, maybe that would help bring it a little higher up, take it out of the margin and make it something that people would be able to see.

An example by which was the naming the Drake Center while the serving will the city manager was still live, former city manager was still living.

I'm kind of feeling like we might just pull it from tonight's agenda and do it.

I I would totally, you know, and that's one of the things that kind of came into my mind too, is just we take a motion to table this.

Um and if you guys can work on a little tweak that kind of incorporates what you're hearing from us, and then we can bring it back in November, Council.

Does that you would do like an official motion or are you just okay with the consensus of head number?

I'm gonna turn to Rochelle.

Are you okay if we just withdraw it?

And then we'll just reintroduce it.

Okay.

And I I think I just recording discussion and tabling acknowledgement from the council and acceptance of that motion that this that direction at this time.

Yeah.

And we'll just bring it back next month with maybe a little tweak and it'll sail through.

Okay.

Cool.

Thanks, Barbara.

Uh, don't go away though.

Uh you got the street naming policy uh under resolution 2025 52.

You want to explain to us how amazingly different or not this is?

Um so this one is somewhat different.

Um the city has never had uh street naming policy.

We've had an informal, this is how we do it.

Um we couldn't find anything written down.

Um especially nothing adopted as a formal policy by resolution.

But generally the item the first five dots that north-south streets are numbered west to east, starting with First Avenue at Forest Grove.

That's been followed for a long time.

East West Streets south of baseline are organized alphabetically from A, following the alphabet.

East West Streets south of baseline are named after trees, with one exception, and I'll talk about that, which created the reason for the policy.

Um East West Streets north of baseline are organized alphabetically from A.

And then east west streets north of baseline are named for an individual, non-living who provided exceptional service in the interest of the city or is associated with a person living whose contribution or significant gift is of a most extraordinary nature, and the name is not associated with a past or present city employee.

So that last clause is the one I know you're gonna have heartburn over.

So we will come back and massage that a little.

So the public infrastructure advisory board recommended that you go forward with this, and um I'd be happy to take any comments that you have.

I did hear the one about the previous item.

So I I think I know what you want on that with regard to that issue.

I will just say something to add to that that I've thought about is what if one day you know someone who's retired, a city employee wants to donate an extraordinary amount, right?

But then we can't name the whatever it is after them because due to that.

So I think there's a couple different things I could see there.

Other than that, everything else looks great.

Um do you have a question related to what you just said?

So because this policy is going into effect now, or would be going into effect, uh, I'm assuming after this name has already been approved, so we can't make changes to that.

That's correct.

Got it.

Okay.

Thank you.

Yes.

Council Lopez, questions, comments.

Just curious, do we know the name?

Shelby.

Sorry, I'm a terrible person again.

And I I want to name it like the Heinrich roundabout somewhere.

We need to counselor Steve Heinrich.

Um I no, I think it's the same thing as before.

Questions or concerns, obviously, if the the council has the end authority.

I mean, we used to, you know, let the fire chief have authority on some of the stuff, and I don't know where it's all evolved to, but uh the rest of it I think we're good with, right?

The the numbering, the the you know, what's our basic, and if we want to do something, I mean, Portland's gone back and renamed a bunch of streets, you know, and after, and it's like if it was somebody that was local, I'd see more of it than national or international.

I feel like it's a little silly to name your streets after national and international people.

It's seems more appropriate to name it after somebody local.

I mean, we got a hortichoke park for the reason the hortichoke family donated the park.

We thought that was a good idea.

So I think these are I think that's the same thing.

So do we table this one, just bring it back next month with a little tweak, or what do you what's the what are we thinking here?

Question for you, Barbara.

It does say in your slides that any requested variances would go to the public infrastructure advisory board.

So is this one distinct in providing for a variance review as opposed to the other one?

So this one is different in that typically staff makes the decisions that if it's consistent with the policy, staff approves it.

Um we do consult with fire on all street names.

So if a road is going in and we have one subdivision that has um a number of wounders, so the little narrow um concrete streets.

And I thought they should all be named differently, and the fire department said no, we want them named all the same.

They're all gonna be north 20th way, but we want them numbered sequentially so that when we come in with our fire truck, we know where to go.

So we didn't change the name for each one differently.

So this policy would still apply for that.

Um I I don't want you to think that we don't consult with the fire department, but we do.

And then um, so staff would normally make a recommendation or would make that decision, but in the case of um this proposal that came before us to name it after a person instead of um uh tree, we would take that to the public infrastructure advisory board who would um make a decision and recommend that to um city council.

Or no, they would be the actual advisory body.

So they would make the decision about um how it would be amended.

Council, what do you think or may I clarify?

Yes, city manager.

So I I didn't I didn't track you in response to my question.

So I think just to restate, I think what you're saying, Barbara, is that this is distinct and different from the public facilities naming in that staff have traditionally made this decision in the absence of a policy.

And this does provide a means for a a special name to be recommended to the public infrastructure advisory board, not the city council.

Is that right?

It would be recommended to the public infrastructure advisory board, who would then make a recommendation to city council.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Even if it doesn't meet all these criteria, correct.

So city staff have to follow the criteria when a subdivision comes forward, and if somebody comes forward a developer and wants to name it something different, they would go to the public infrastructure advisory board and request this alternative function, and then they would the public infrastructure advisory board would make a recommendation to you.

And the and the other uh distinction here is that you know there is a rhythm to the naming for streets as opposed to facilities, which could be named kind of anything.

So I just wanted to point out that difference.

May I say one more thing?

Yes.

So um, Mr.

Mayor, you met you um mentioned the city of Portland renaming streets.

There's actually um code in state law about how to go about renaming states renaming streets, and it's because it changes uh a whole streets address.

So you have to consult with the post office, and there's a a list of things that you have to do to rename a street once it's been established.

So this would not cover that.

It would be based on state law.

This would only cover new streets, not reclaimed.

Correct.

I don't have to get that Heinrich uh off to by land and put a roundabout in just for that.

Okay.

Um are we good to move forward, entertain a motion on this one, Council?

Okay, let's entertain a motion on 2552.

I make a motion to approve resolution number 2025 uh 52, a resolution of the Cornelia City Council establishing a policy for the naming of streets, and this action takes effect immediately.

Motion by Councillor Gondines to have a second.

Second.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstentions?

Passed unanimous second was by Councillor Lopez.

Thank you.

Um we are growing near the end of our hour, and what I would suggest is why don't we do the utility briefing program adjustment?

And can we push all the food and beverage stuff to next month?

Is that acceptable?

Is that gonna ru stop the world from spinning?

I'm also okay if we need to extend time.

Yeah, that's one of us.

It might stop the world from spinning, actually.

I'm being a little funny, but um the city attorney is pretty adamant that we that we move forward on these, and so taking their advice, I would prefer it.

But however, if you decide to do otherwise, we will survive.

Okay, let's let's move forward on 2025-53, the utility building relief program adjustment.

Ms.

Jones.

Can I change my mind on um resolution 2025-51?

Uh because language matters and um tabling means something specific.

So I was wondering if we could just get a motion to postpone the item to give staff more time.

Second.

Motion by Councillor Godiness, second by Mayor Delane.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Thank you.

Opposed abstentions is unanimous.

You're welcome.

Okay.

Ms.

Jones.

Thank you.

Um Ellie Jones, assistant city manager.

This is a resolution to revise the utility billing uh low-income relief program.

As you as you know, we did implement this last October 2024.

Uh we gave City Council an update at the last city council meeting.

Um you had asked us to go back and look to see what adjustments we might be able to make to this program so that it could be utilized a little bit more.

Um so we did.

Staff went back.

Um currently a utility customer can receive um assistance on a max of two utility bills, up to three hundred dollars within a 12-month period.

Staff is suggesting that we modify this plan to allow a maximum of three utility bills up to 450 dollars within a 12-month period.

That equates to essentially 25% of an annual utility billing.

Um is funding um this program, and once those funds end, we will come back to council and the budget committee to see how we can continue to fund this.

Um so staff is asking that you approve the revision as presented, and I'm happy to answer any questions.

Questions, comments?

Counselor Lopez, thank you, Mayor.

Um, what's the overall what's left on that ARPO funding?

Um so from last month to this month, I think we've uh provided about 10,000 in assistance.

So we have a 3500, excuse me, 35,000.

Okay.

Still available, so quite a bit.

Thank you.

Sorry, last question follow-up.

Uh and we have to use that up by December of next year, is that correct?

December 31 of 2026.

Okay.

Thank you.

Further questions.

Entertain a motion.

I make a motion to approve resolution number 2025 53, a resolution of the Cornelia City Council authorizing the revision of the utility billing relief program, and this action takes effect immediately.

Motion by Councilor Godinas.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Second by Councilor Lopez.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstentions?

Pass unanimous.

Thank you.

Well, if I could just pass all these food adjustments in one motion.

Okay, we have got two and a half minutes.

Council, I move to table uh G H I J and K to next month's meeting.

Do I have a second?

I'll second that motion.

Motion by Mayor Delane, second by Counselor Lopez.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

Aye.

Okay, thank you.

That's two to one.

They're tabled.

All right.

That takes us to.

I'm sorry, I've been up since 4 a.m.

So I had this this guy's dying of the vine.

Um we're still gonna need a couple of minutes to get through the rest of the stuff.

Can we have a motion to extend the meeting?

10 minutes.

10 minutes.

Motion by uh counselor Godinus for 10.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Second by Councilor Lopez.

That extends the meeting to 910.

Okay.

I think that's all the resolutions we had that takes us into city council reports.

Does the council have any reports?

I do have a statement that I would like to read.

Please go ahead, Councilor Godiness.

So I want to begin by saying that I'm not here to condone what our former city counselor, John Colgan said.

I think his comments were wrong and deeply hurtful to many, but I also believe that it's important to acknowledge that people make mistakes and that not that having your entire life turned upside down and being vilified for those mistakes is not okay.

I'm not asking anyone to forgive him.

That's not my place.

What I do want to say is that John is not the awful person that so many have made him out to be.

He has served this community for years, both through his role on council and through his work as a teacher.

He's someone who genuinely cares about Cornelius, our youth in our schools.

I first met John when I volunteered in his afterschool program where I saw firsthand how he went above and beyond for his students.

He often spent his afternoons volunteering at our city library tutoring students for free.

And just a few weeks ago, he reached out to me because he knew that with the recent budget cuts, the school couldn't afford to host a science fair.

And he wanted to see how we might make something happen anyways, because he had students who he knew would be really excited about the idea.

And that's the John I know.

Someone who shows up for others and looks for ways to give back.

John brought forward so many thoughtful ideas and contributed a great deal to the council and our city.

And it breaks my heart to think that the only thing people remember him for is a single online statement.

Over the weekend, I attended the League of Oregon Cities Conference, and the very first session I went to was about civility, about working with people whose opinions or values may differ from our own, especially in today's political climate.

And one message that really stayed with me is that it's hard to hate someone you know.

And that's why I think it's so important to truly get to know people, not just for their beliefs or mistakes, but for who they are at their core.

We will not always agree with one another, but we s um, but we can still treat each other with civility and respect.

And that's what I hope we can all remember that even in disagreement, compassion and humanity should get should guide how we respond.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councillor Gonias.

Counselor Lopez, any updates this evening?

Okay.

Um on my list, I'd be remiss not to uh mention um trip back to DC with the Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation last month.

Uh we got a chance to meet with our federally electeds and their DC staff and talk to them about policies in the transportation arena for the metropolitan area.

Um, not the least of which is you know uh Council Creek and TV Highway for our end of town, um, obviously 82nd on the east side, and uh the Montgomery Park project in downtown Portland.

Um not um not a uh very great time for our uh federally electeds.

They're uh um feeling pretty challenged in the minority right now at the federal level.

Um they are continuing to fight and do what they can, but um a lot of this stuff is being rolled back or terminated.

I know that uh we had an update on the Council Creek Trail that they'd gone in for a um an adjustment on some of the funding that had previously been awarded for it, and the feds came back with new stipulations and requirements to continue to receive that funding.

And the last word I had heard, they had not proceeded, and the county was still deliberating whether they would sign on to those new requirements because of their concerns of how it would open up the county for other um involvement from the feds.

So um while it was a good trip, uh city manager Brandon and I got a chance to go to good meetings, uh talk with people, uh US DOT, I think was a very good meeting, also.

Um we also went back.

I actually went back for a third day and represented the county uh with uh our chair others to uh talk about um county priorities.

Um got some opportunities to talk with our electeds on those.

So if there is um an opportunity to move forward specifically with uh uh Congresswoman Bonomichi on uh congressionally directed spending, our um community center is on her list, so that's one of the opportunities for us.

And uh it was a good trip.

It was an interesting trip.

Uh as we sat and ate dinner one night and ate her burgers and watched the uh National Guard walk by on the on the boardwalk.

It was uh interesting thing to see their presence in the in the general community.

So um I'll be uh submitting my expenses on that.

I think we were pretty frugal about the trip.

Um, far more frugal than some of our uh other compadres, especially uh traveling to Europe.

I can't help but comment on traveling Europe to study homelessness when we have it right here in our own community.

Um so that's that's uh a tough one.

So uh continuing to work.

Um I don't know if you saw um the alternate for the cities of uh Washington County.

Um Mayor Heidi from Tigerd has stepped down.

So I'm the the sole representative, so the mayors are trying to find the alternate the new alternate to the cities of Washington County for JPAC, and uh definitely been some upheaval in the the region, not the least of which is uh what's going on in downtown.

I think you folks saw my uh I signed on to a couple different things.

They signed on to the Metropolitan Mayor's consortium as the mayor in a statement basically saying, hey, I don't think that we need this kind of federal support, and then also with the uh chamber of commerce in Portland through their statement, basically saying they were concerned.

I think the one I'd really share with you there is um though I think Peter and I were unaffected by the presence of the National Guard in DC, uh DC uh has quoted as seeing a 30% reduction in uh commerce in the downtown area with the presence.

Uh a lot of people don't feel comfortable with the National Guard being present, even if they're just uh walking around or buying donuts at Voodoo Donut or whatever, it makes people uncomfortable and keeps them away.

So there is definitely um an impact to the community with this presence, and uh people are voting their discomfort with their dollars.

So I think I'll end my update for brevity at that point and turn it over to uh city manager Brendan.

Thank you, Mayor, and I too will be as brief as I can.

I do want to just pull up a couple of photos to thank the public works operations team for responding and getting some additional treatment and the engineering team too for getting some new treatments for pedestrian safety.

This is 20th and Heather, where they were able to get some new uh material down in the crosswalk before the rains came.

South 26 and Kodiak, the the paint was there, but the the signs which um really be effective are new, and then also at South 26 and Heather, that's new paint on the street.

They'll also be adding more at South 26 and Ginger when they get enough of a dry spell.

So many thanks to the team for that for that, and more to come on all of that too.

Um I attended a wonderful celebration of our anti-displacement plan on Sunday, September 21st, over at uh Plaza Los Amigos that was put on by Unite Oregon, who who developed the plan, and I got to meet the community members who sat on the plan steering committee, and it was a very powerful, powerful um afternoon with them.

I just wanted to note again Captain Richison from our fire department featured in a community hero section of the Forest Grove News Times on uh September 24th.

So look for that if you haven't.

It's a wonderful piece.

Congratulations to the 18 volunteer firefighter recruits who graduated last week in a ceremony at the fire station.

That was also very powerful event.

Um they really packed the house with family and friends.

It was wonderful.

Uh I did connect with on Mayor's uh suggestionslash request, connected with the owner of Bobcat Cornelius, the new Bobcat dealer.

Uh he provided unsolicited compliments to our development team.

So uh major kudos to Terry Keys, Kevin Openlander, Susan Rush, Barbara Fryer, Tim France, Terry Godwin.

I hope I'm not missing anybody there internally, and then of course Forest Grove Building and Fire Departments for their uh excellent work.

Metro is looking for an elected uh member of one of you to participate in their 50 year visioning process.

So just please refer to the email that I sent.

And if you have any questions, let me know.

We've been awarded a Department of Land Conservation, Department of Land Conservation and Development, uh state agency grant for housing planning assistance, specifically to develop our buildable lands inventory update and housing capacity analysis.

So thanks, Barbara, for getting that.

And just kind of to second the uh League of Oregon Cities Conference was great, um, great connections and and material.

And thank you, Council President Godinez and Councillor Lopez for attending.

Thank you.

Okay.

So that if that's all of our reports, at this time I would entertain a motion to adjourn.

And motion to adjourn.

Motion by Councillor Godinas.

So I have a second.

Second.

Second by Councillor Lopez.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, abstentions, pass unanimous.

We're adjourned.

Thank you.