Good evening.

I'd like to call to order this meeting of the Forest Grove City Council at 704.

Will our city recorder please call?

Councillor Gaserson.

Here.

Council President Valenzuela.

Here.

Councillor Schimmel.

Here.

Councillor Falconer.

Here.

Councillor Martinez.

Here.

Councillor Marshall.

Here.

Mayor Wenzel.

Here.

We acknowledge the land on which Forest Grove is located, rests on the traditional village sites of the At Palati, a tribe of the Calapuas who originally inhabited the Tualide Plains, the Twalaton Plains, including Forest Grove.

They are now part of the Confederate tribes of Grand Ron.

Will the Council and the audience please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance?

Testing.

That's better.

Our proclamation this evening is for National Community Development Week.

Whereas the week of April 6th through April 10th, 2026 has been designated as National Community Development Week by the National Community Development Association to celebrate the Community Development Block Grant, C D B G program, and the Home Investment Partnerships Home Program.

And whereas the CBCDBG program provides annual funding and flexibility to local communities to provide decent safe and sanitary housing, a suitable living environment, and economic opportunities to low and moderate income people.

And whereas the home investment partnership programs provide funding to local communities to create decent safe affordable housing opportunities for low income persons.

Nationally, over one million units of affordable housing have been completed using home funds.

Now, therefore, the city of the City Council of the City of Forest Grove does hereby proclaim April 6th through April 10th, 2026 as National Community Development Week.

In Forest Grove, Oregon, in support of these two valuable programs that have made tremendous contributions to the viability of the housing stock, infrastructure, public services, and economic vitality in our community.

Thank you.

El Ayuntamiento de la Ciudad de Forest Grove proclama formedio de la presente los días del seis a diez de Abril de Dos Milty Comes Nacional del Desarrollo Comunitario and Forest Grove, Oregon, and apoyo a estos dos vallos programas que han realizado contribution extraordinarias a la viabilidad de existencias de viviendas, la infraestructura, los services publicos y la vitalidad economica de nuestra comunidad, and testimonio de lo cual asuscrito la presente y a Echo Celse de la Ciudad de Forest Grove Oregon Semblace in the D Marcel de 2026.

Thank you, Council President.

We're gonna move on to item B on the agenda, public comment.

Time provided for anyone wishing to speak to City Council on an item not on the agenda or on the agenda but not scheduled for a public hearing.

Comments are limited to two minutes unless additional time is granted by the presiding officer.

The public comment period shall not exceed 30 minutes unless a majority of counselors present vote to extend the time.

Zoom attendees may use a raise hand option to be called on.

I got it.

Thank you.

But I do not expect this miracle to hold.

ISIS killed American citizens, immediately moved to shield the offending agents from all consequences, and offered only token discipline to leadership with the removal of Christy Noam to a diplomatic position.

There has been no reform.

Meanwhile, there has been a shocking pattern emerging in federal detention facilities.

What are they hiding?

Where are the missing detainees from the horrifying facility constructed in Florida and abandoned on the grounds of its terrible legal precedent?

What are they planning to do with warehouses?

We cannot allow ice to operate without supervision.

We cannot allow ice to operate without oversight.

ICE may eventually ask to use properties in Forest Grove or its surroundings as detention facilities.

If that occurs in 10, 20, 15, 30 years, who knows how long.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mare Wenzel, Council President Venezuela and Councillors Dale Feek.

We have three minutes, presiding officer.

Sure.

Thank you.

Sunday, March 8th, the Forest Group of Indivisible held an event at the corner of 47th in McMinimans.

People dressed in black held black signs who stood about 15 apart 15 feet apart.

The signs stated Trump's and his regime, many ways of acting like fascists.

The event will happen again on March 20th in front of the library.

The national individual No King's Rally will be March 28th.

Please, all of you who believe we need to do something to fight this.

Please participate in those events.

And in attached to that were Trump's Real Reason for War by Robert Reich and also a document called U.S.

and Israel launched attack on on Iran by Heather Cox Richardson.

The chair of the county commission many times says ready fire aim.

It should be ready aim fire.

Trump did the first.

Ready?

Fire aim.

We are in a big mess with the war in Iran.

I support you, Mayor Wenzel, and uh to protect this residents from ICE.

Border Patrol and Trump's war while Iran or Iran while protect providing critical public services in all you council.

After attending the state of the state of the city by the mayor of Beaverton, and after attending the Forest Grove City Council sessions and business meeting chaired by you, Mayor Wenzel.

And look, I look forward and I also look forward to Mayor Jeffrey Dalen's presentation of the Forest Grove Indivisible Membership.

He's going to present that.

So because of all that, and I'm asking all of you, Mayors, coordinate your efforts to fight for due process in all the areas of your influence.

Mayor Beatty expressed many actions.

I was able to sit right in front, just like I'm doing right now.

She was right there.

And I also had a chance to personally talk with her personally before she made her presentation.

And after attending, though, anyway, I did that.

Mayor Beatty expressed many actions.

Some obvious and not many not obvious that she's doing actions she's taking behind the scenes.

The city of Beaver has taken to do so.

I repeat myself, but bear with me.

I'm a teacher.

Keep pushing in your scheduled work session, Mayor Wenzel, to do everything possible to protect and provide services to all the residents in Forest Grove.

In the email I sent you, Robert Wright says we will honor those who stood up to this tyranny, and we will hold accountable for those who have enabled it, broken the law, trod on our constitution, and made themselves rich.

And he also says, please remain helpful.

Don't give up.

Don't give in the war fever.

Stay strong.

Be safe.

Hug your loved ones, as I did to my eight-year-old granddaughter when I took her to a music lessons today.

I'm sorry I went over.

Okay.

Thank you, Mr.

Feek.

Is there anyone else in the audience who did not have an opportunity to sign up for public comment who would wish to give public comment?

Seeing nobody.

Is there anyone on Zoom who would like to give public comment?

Please use the raise hand feature.

Seeing none, we are going to move on.

Sorry.

You took a little too much.

That's okay, Mr.

Feek.

So moving on to item C on the agenda, consent agenda.

Items considered routine adopted with a single motion without discussion.

Counselors may remove items prior to the motion to adopt.

Any removed items are discussed and acted upon following the approval of the remaining items.

I move that we oh sorry.

Go ahead.

Uh item four for separate comment.

Okay.

I didn't.

I don't think I always forget.

I always forget.

Do you need a second to have an item removed or can no?

Right.

Okay, thanks.

Okay, so we'll um what's the wish for the remaining consent agenda items?

Move to approve.

Hang on.

Hang on, guys.

Oh, sorry, Councillor Govson.

Any Yeah, no problem.

Um I I my agenda is just closed.

So forgive me, but there's one in there I need to have removed for the tourism grants.

I'm not sure what number it is.

Item C2.

The tourism sponsorship award.

Yes.

Can you please pull that?

I'll be recusing from that one.

Okay.

So we're gonna remove item C2 and item C for from the consent agenda.

So then is there a motion to approve item C1 and C3?

Move to up to Council President Valenzuela move to approve and councillor Martinez seconded.

What's the wish of the council?

Or wait.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed.

Okay, the items C1 and C3 are approved by the City Council.

Any vote of seven to zero.

Now let's okay, Councilor Schimmel, do you want to discuss item C4?

Yeah, it involves uh resignations from a board and commission.

I just want to highlight uh Steve Crotchide, uh, who's served on the Economic Development Commission for over a decade.

Um, and is probably serving on the on the chamber board as well.

Um his term is expiring and coincides with his retirement.

Uh so I I this is a positive personal um benefit to him.

He can he can joy the rest of his uh retirement days, but he's been an exceptional public servant um to the economic development commission.

So wanna highlight that.

Yeah, thank you, counselor.

I agree.

Thank you for highlighting that.

So then now do I need to pass this one separate?

Yes.

Yes.

Okay, so all those in favor of approving item C4, please say aye.

Aye.

All that's all those opposed.

Hearing none, item C or was C4 was approved by the city council in a seven to zero vote.

Okay, counselor gusts in item C2.

Yes, I moved to pull that from the agenda or from um the full consent agenda.

So you guys can vote on that separate.

I will be recusing myself.

Okay, so counselor gustan's recusing from item C2.

Any other discussion on that?

I don't okay.

So all those in favor of approving item C2, please say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed.

So item C2 was approved by the city council, and a vote of six to zero with counselor guffs then uh recusing herself.

Okay, I made it through the consent agenda.

That seemed pretty clunky for me.

That's okay.

I I've made it through it.

Okay, we're gonna move on to item B, additions or deletions.

City manager, do you have any additions or deletions?

No additions or deletions.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you.

Counselor Guffson, is your hand still raised from the last thing?

No, it's it's up again.

Okay.

Um, sorry.

It was up too soon.

Sorry.

Okay.

Is there any per uh additions or deletions proposed by counselors?

Counselor Guffson.

Um, I wanted to, and I I don't know if it needs to be added tonight, but have a conversation very soon about uh parking at a downtown center.

Okay, so um setups.

So do you wanna ask for like a work session or an update?

Because I know the traffic board a work session, yeah.

A work session on downtown parking.

On downtown parking, yeah.

Okay.

Um is there any is there?

I I would be up for that just for the fact that I know that downtown businesses feel like that's their biggest issue is parking.

Okay.

And I think too, there's gonna be a traffic control change in downtown.

So is there some updates?

Wednesday update, like is there's like there's also some other updates we could do with downtown parking.

Yeah.

Okay, is it?

I think what we would bring to the work session if there's a consensus with council is what the existing parking is, what the existing limits are, how many spaces there are, where the public lots are.

We can bring all that information.

If there's other research that the council would like us to do prior to that work session, which if you would reach out to me and please let me know, that would really be helpful.

Okay, is there a consensus to have a work session on parking?

I'm seeing heads not.

So I think there is consensus.

So we will add that to an upcoming agenda.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Any other additions or deletions from counselors?

Okay, seeing none, we're gonna move now on to item E, which is presentations.

The council will hold questions until the end of each presentation.

Um, and so we have a presentation from our community development director and team about the comprehensive plan.

And this is gonna be a longer presentation than normal.

Normal, normally they're around 15, so it's a half an hour.

Indeed, it is gonna be a longer presentation than normal.

Uh thank you all.

Uh Brian Poll, P development director, City of Forest Grove.

Here with our uh amazing, wonderful senior planner in charge of long-range planning, Dan Rearden.

Uh, talking to you about something that's we've we've been a long time in the process to come to.

Um, and sort of we I think we always kind of knew that on the heels of 2040 that we would be here talking about this very issue.

Uh so I'm gonna let Dan do most of the presentation.

I might jump in where necessary, but uh feel free to ask questions as we go along.

Uh if you have any.

Thank you, Brian, Mayor Wenzel and members of the city council, Dan Rurdin, senior planner with the community development department.

And it's my pleasure to be here with you this evening.

Uh, this is a topic that's near and dear to my heart as a planner.

Can't get enough of the comprehensive plan, and so hopefully this will be uh a good presentation for everyone on the council to dive into what exactly is the comprehensive plan.

So there are three things we'd really like to touch on this evening, provide a little overview of what the purpose of the presentation is, what exactly is a comprehensive plan, and then potential next steps.

So one purpose for this presentation is to specifically address Forest Grove Ford Vision 2040 action item 2.8, which is to specifically update the comprehensive plan.

The second purpose for this presentation is to increase awareness of what a public what a comprehensive plan is.

Next slide, please.

So there are some other actions that have been identified by the city council over various discussions through the Forest Grove Forward planning process as well as through goal setting that could potentially be considered as part of the comprehensive plan.

And those include a climate action plan, uh vision zero related to traffic, an urban forest program, establishing 15 minute neighborhoods, and a bird-safe dark sky program.

Next slide, please.

So before I move forward into exactly what is a comprehensive plan, I'd like to provide an overview of how the comprehensive plan fits in with other policy documents and laws.

Uh the comprehensive plan is called out on this graphic that's up on the screen by the arrow.

Um the comprehensive plan authority stems from constitutional and federal requirements, mostly the constitution, state law, Oregon Revised Chapter 197, and the Oregon Administrative Rules, which implement the statewide planning goals, and then Metro requirements.

The city's comprehensive plan has to be consistent with the Metro, Region 2040 planning concept, the urban growth management functional plan, and the regional transportation plan.

And then out of the comprehensive plan flow the development codes and the zoning map.

The development code implements what's the policies that are in the comprehensive plan.

The development codes are used to assess land use applications, leading to development approval, and then ultimately building permits.

And then hopefully at the end of the day, once we go through the process with our community members, we have happy, satisfied residents.

That's always the desired outcome.

So what is a comprehensive plan?

It's defined in state law, and the statement up on the definition of the state law is somewhat bureaucratic, and so it's somewhat paraphrased, but essentially a comprehensive plan is a generalized coordinated land use map, which is shown up on the screen, and a policy statement, which is the text in the comprehensive plan that interrelates the systems and activities related to the use of land.

And we'll get into specifically what those systems and activities are, but it's basically to ensure that coordination is occurring.

So a comprehensive plan also provides a factual basis, and this is very important, a factual basis for making local land use decisions so that they are not arbitrary.

The policies in the comprehensive plan are intended to provide certainty for community residents as well as the development community, so they know what the community's expectations are around land use.

The comprehensive plan also provides the foundations for the standards regulating development in the city's development code.

The comprehensive plan is a policy document and it's not regulatory.

That is another important point related to the comprehensive plan.

When a development application comes in the door, we don't review the development application based on what's in the comprehensive plan.

We review it based on what's on the zoning map and what's in the development code.

So the comprehensive plan is implemented by the city zoning map, which is a separate document and the development code, both of which are regulatory.

The comprehensive plan is intended to be dynamic and responsive to community needs.

Since the comprehensive plan was adopted in 2014, it's been amended 17 times by ordinance.

Many of these are map amendments brought forward by the request of a property owner or a developer.

Some of them are related to text amendments to the code, or amending the comprehensive plan to update it based on other planning documents that are adopted.

And I'll get into that in a little bit more detail later in the presentation.

But foremost, and fundamentally, a comprehensive plan demonstrates the city's compliance with the Oregon statewide planning goals.

There are 19 planning goals that have been adopted by the Oregon legislature, and their goals are the foundation of the statewide planning program.

They really express the state's expectations for planning related to land use.

Next slide.

So out of the 19 Oregon statewide and land use planning goals, 12 are specifically applicable to the city of Forest Grove, and those are shown in bold.

And the comprehensive plan is structured in a way so that it can clearly demonstrate compliance with these goals.

Comprehensive plans can be structured in different ways, like topics can be combined, but the way our comprehensive plan is set up is it's intended to address each one of these goals specifically.

Next slide.

So the Forest Grove Plan Comprehensive Plan includes specific chapters that address each one of those applicable planning goals, except for statewide planning goals six and thirteen, which are embedded throughout the plan because they touch a number of different topic areas, which I'll get into in a little bit more detail later in the presentation.

So this is the structure of the city's comprehensive plan, and this table shows each one of the individual chapters, the topic that's addressed, and the statewide planning goal that's addressed.

Go through each chapter one by one.

Next slide.

Chapter one has background information, it's very general.

It's really intended to lay the foundation for the comprehensive plan.

Chapter one identifies the significant changes that occurred since the original plan was adopted in 1980.

The plan chapter one also addresses the plan context and the planning authority that stems from state law, argument by statutes chapter 197.

It also gets into what the sideboards are for local planning.

Chapter 1 also identifies the issues and opportunities addressed in the comprehensive plan.

One is community sustainability, which I'll hit on in just a moment.

And then chapter one also identifies the relationship of the local comprehensive plan with the Metro Region 2040 growth concept because it has to be consistent.

Moving on to chapter two.

Chapter 2 addresses the city's community involvement process, which is related to statewide planning goal one, the foundation for the Oregon's planning program, citizen involvement.

Chapter 2 specifically recognizes the city's boards and commissions as a way to encourage community involvement.

And Chapter 2 identifies what is now the community community committee for community engagement as the primary way of fulfilling goal one requirements.

Goal one requires that the city has a committee related to community development.

Chapter three addresses community sustainability, and you'll notice going back to the state land statewide land use planning goals.

There isn't a goal specifically related yet to community sustainability, but community sustainability touches on a number of different goals.

Chapter three includes a greenhouse gas inventory for municipal operations that was done about the same time that the comprehensive plan was being developed, includes a vision for local sustainability, and includes goals and policies around sustainability.

And some examples include encouraging interconnected land uses, creating complete neighborhoods where there are variety of services and activities occurring, and that was really the foundation for the city's neighborhood mixed use zone being created, and then adopting development standards for climate mitigation.

And the goal or chapter three also includes a goal or policy for preparing a climate action plan.

One of those topics that the city council would like to include.

A community climate action plan could be included as part of chapter three, so that could be called out further in more detail.

So although there is a sustainability vision and actions around sustainability, if there's a specific community climate action plan that the council would like to proceed with, that could be called out further in chapter.

Next slide, please.

Chapter 4 addresses statewide planning goal number two, which is related to land use.

This is a really important goal.

It's really the one that is the most overarching in the comprehensive plan.

It describes in chapter four the city's land use districts, which are shown on the comprehensive plan map, showing up on the screen.

And one thing that's really important to know is that to comply with Oregon statewide land use planning goal two, the comprehensive plan must designate enough land for development needs for all activities, commercial, retail, industrial, for a 20-year time frame.

So that's relates to the factual basis and making sure that we have enough land to meet fairly long term needs, a 20-year time frame for planning.

Next slide, please.

The comprehensive plan is implemented as I mentioned earlier by the city's zoning map, which is regulatory.

The comprehensive plan and zoning map should be consistent, if at all possible.

And one thing to know is that the zoning map can be adopted concurrently with the comprehensive plan at the same time or separately, since it is a separate document.

So it could be adopted separately, similar to the city's development code, which is also separate document.

Next slide.

Chapter 4 includes guiding principles for the efficient use of land and complementary land uses.

And additional detail can be added to Chapter 4 for specifically creating 15-minute neighborhoods if that's something that the city council would like to see.

Chapter 4 provides a framework for the standards contained in the city's development code regulating land use.

The development code currently includes standards for lighting.

A policy could be added to the comprehensive plan, and the development code could be amended to include lighting standards for a bird-safe dark sky policy.

So that could be added to Chapter 4 of the Comprehensive Plan if desired.

Chapter 5 starts to get into the factual basis of the comprehensive plan.

Chapter 5 addresses the housing needs and requirements of statewide planning goal 10.

Goal 10 requires that the city adopt a housing needs, which is now needs slash capacity analysis.

It was a housing needs analysis, it is now being referred to as a housing capacity analysis.

The housing capacity analysis is part of the comprehensive plan and provides a basis for amending the comprehensive plan map and zoning map.

And an example of this is if the housing capacity analysis shows that the city has a deficient deficiency in land needed to meet residential development projections over the next 20 years if there's a deficiency.

The zoning map and comprehensive plan map can be amended to redesignate non-residential land.

So, say industrial land, one example might be a portion of the Oaks tree industrial area.

That potentially could be redesignated to residential on the comprehensive plan map and zoning map to make sure so that we can ensure that the city's long-term housing needs are met.

20-year plan.

Next slide, please.

Chapter six relates specifically to the local economy and statewide planning goal nine.

Goal nine requires that the city prepare an economic opportunity analysis that assesses land available for industrial and commercial needs.

And it basically reconciles demand for commercial and industrial land with the supply that's available.

And again, this gets to ensuring that there's an adequate supply of land designated on the comprehensive plan map and zoning map for non-residential purposes, commercial, industrial, and institutional as well.

The EOA is part of the comprehensive plan map, and that's why we bring it forward to the council for adoption by ordinance.

It actually amends the comprehensive plan so that the EOA is up is included as part of the comprehensive plan.

And the EOA also provides a basis for changes to the comprehensive plan map and zoning.

Moving on to chapter seven.

Chapter 7 addresses public facilities and services, which are broadly defined.

It relates specifically to statewide planning goal 11.

Goal 11 requires the city's plan and develop a timely, orderly, and efficient arrangement of public facilities and services to serve as a framework for development.

This is really just a long way of saying that there needs to be adequate infrastructure provided to support the land use concept on the city's comprehensive plan, so that the sanitary sewer, storm drainage, and water lines are sufficient and can serve those land uses that are on the map.

But goal 11 goes beyond just water, sewer, and storm drainage.

It also includes recreation facilities, communications, educational services, schools, and community governmental services.

Now the facility master plans that the city's engineering division works on are considered to be part of the comprehensive plan, specifically the watermaster plan, the wastewater master plan, and the storm drainage plan.

Again, this is why we bring these forward to the city council for adoption by ordinance because it actually amends the comprehensive plan when the new plans are being adopted.

Chapter 7 also includes the parks recreation and open spaces master plan because goal eight and goal 11 both require that the city address recreational facilities.

And so to comply with the goal requirements, the city's parks and recreation master plan are adopted as part of the comprehensive plan.

Next slide.

So moving on to uh also included in chapter eight as part of a goal 11 requirement is coordination with the local school district.

Although the school district's long-range facility master plan is not part of the comprehensive plan officially, there is a requirement under state law that school district needs be coordinated with the comprehensive plan.

And so when we went through the comprehensive plan update the last time in 2014, we found that there was a need for an additional elementary school in the community based on the school district's projections for enrollment.

So a site was identified on the comprehensive plan map for a future elementary school, which is north of the farmstead development north of David Hill Road.

And so that is sure going through this process, ensure that the school district needs are actually captured in the comprehensive plan.

Next slide, please.

Moving on to chapter 9.

Chapter 9 addresses the requirements of goal five, which addresses natural resources and other items, which I'll discuss in a moment, but it's mostly related to natural resources.

Chapter 9 of the Comprehensive Plan includes goals and policies related to natural resources.

And this would be a good place for the City Council to add goals and policies related to the urban forest, if that's something the city council would like to proceed with, would fit in nicely with chapter.

Goal five also requires that the city inventory local historic resources.

So goal five addresses natural resources and other resources, such as the historic resources of the community.

So the city's historic districts are identified specifically in the comprehensive plan, as well as all of the locally designated historic structures in the community.

Goal five also requires that there be local adoption of programs that will protect and preserve historic resources.

And this could be something like the city's historic preservation plan, which is being developed.

Chapter 10 addresses urbanization.

This basically addresses areas that are inside the urban growth boundary but are not yet in the city or cities that are actively under development.

Chapter 10 addresses goal 14 and touches on annexation, how annex what the requirements for annexation are and how annexation proceeds in the community.

Land use planning coordination is also another key component.

So coordination with Metro, the state Department of Land Conservation Development, and also Washington County.

And there is an urban planning area agreement between Washington County and the city that identifies roles and responsibilities for planning within the city's planning area, basically the area inside the UGB, both inside the city limits and the unincorporated area.

And the reason I mentioned this is there has been an amendment to the urban planning area agreement that the Washington County Board's Board of Commissioners has adopted, and we'll be bringing that forward to the city council for review and consideration in the not too distant future.

And then chapter 10 also touches on cost of planning for the urban reserve area up on David Hill and areas brought into the urban growth boundaries, such as the West Side Plan Area.

Next slide.

And then chapter 11, getting towards the end here.

Chapter 11 addresses transportation needs and stayway planning goal 12 requirements, which relates to a safe and convenient transportation system.

One thing to know is that transportation is defined very broadly under goal 12.

It includes not only roads and bicycle lanes and sidewalks for pedestrian and transit, it also includes rail and pipelines.

So it's it's it's comprehensive as you might imagine.

Goal 12 requires the adoption of a local transportation system plan.

The TSP is part of the comprehensive plan.

And chapter 12 and the transportation system plan is a place where something like a policy for vision zero could be addressed.

Next slide, please.

So wrapping things up in terms of next steps.

Tonight's presentation provided an introduction of what a comprehensive plan is and what it contains.

Hopefully, it was somewhat interesting and educational.

Um it's the first in a series of presentations and work sessions related to updating scoping and sequencing the comprehensive plan.

Future presentations and work sessions will delve into follow-up from any questions from tonight's presentation if needed.

The process for updating the comprehensive plan under state law, and uh project scoping for the comprehensive plan, what to include, what not to include, including how to possibly in more detail incorporate actions from Vision 2040 into the comprehensive plan.

This concludes my portion of the presentation.

Brian, is there anything you'd like to do?

I think Dan summed it up that you know this is what we're trying to kind of show you tonight, educational sort of session.

Um, of course, there's a lot in the comprehensive plan.

Won't go there again with the comprehensive.

But uh the county plan is available on our website if any of you want to just kind of read it, skim it.

Um, kind of if you have any questions about it, feel free to contact us.

I think that what will be interesting for you is if you if you've been on this on the city council for a while, you may have seen things come in front of you and have all these ordinances, citations and everything.

Uh the interesting thing about the conference of plan is you'll see sort of the genesis of where those things came from.

Um, and and that might be that might be a little bit illuminating for you.

Um but if you have any questions or you want a copy or want us for the outcome, whatever, uh just ask us.

We can help you out.

Okay, thanks.

Questions, counselor Schummel.

Yeah, Janet, I'm I'm curious about timeline relative to intersecting statutes or state statutes, like namely the housing production plan and whether that chapter takes uh emergency because you got ahead of deadline.

Um as you build out the entirety of the plan.

Is there a yeah, the general censor or uh maybe come back with the slide on what the timeline and intersections look like?

Yeah, so I mean I I think we have more sort of discovery to do.

Um that that's certainly one thing that kind of you know common traveling alongside this comp line update.

Um we also have a TSP update that last I heard was due by end of 2027, so that's also part of the of the conference of plan that kind of you know gets adopted sidewise beside it.

Um and so you know, this doesn't happen in a vacuum, right?

I mean, we don't we don't just do our own conference plan and have no oversight to it.

You know, the State Department of Land Conservation Development also uh either is involved in the plan.

We'll talk more about this next session, but either is involved in the plan with us or uh kind of gets the sort of oversight at the end when we're done and ready to adopt this thing to post acknowledgement plan amendment.

Um working alongside the DLCD will also kind of help us sort of sequence these things correctly.

Point put point blank.

We don't know exactly how these things fit together yet, but exploring.

Maybe that wants to comment on that too.

Just to, yeah, to maybe elaborate a little bit.

Um a comprehensive plan, depending on the scope, can take a number of years.

Um I know counselor Falconer, uh Milwaukee updated their comprehensive plan not that long ago, and it was a three-year process.

And we have a very strict timeline for adoption of the house city's housing capacity analysis, and out of that comes housing production strategies, and then the transportation system plan timeline.

And so I think something we would like to delve in further with the council is one of the subsequent presentations or work sessions is how exactly all of these pieces can be.

Yeah, one of the things I'm interested in learning or getting staff recommendation about is really how we march this forward.

Um, in what capacity, you know, how do you ramp us up and get the education we need?

Do we want a subcommittee?

Like how much are we gonna let the consultant?

I think um I'm just gonna really lean hard on staff to to tell us, right, like the best way, because this is um, you know, arguably one of the most important documents the city has.

And so it's really important that we do it well and do it right.

And I just, you know, and I'm not the expert.

So I think just moving forward as we we do the education and then you know, look at the scope and figure out if it's a subcommittee.

I think that's gonna be the guidance that I'm gonna be looking for from staff.

And mayor, are that really gets to the process?

There are basically two avenues, two pathways that are available to the city.

And I think how that's structured, any committees, how involvement occurs.

It's really dependent on which pathway the city council would like to move forward with.

And again, that's something we'd like to delve into further with the council at an upcoming work session, likely.

Okay, well.

Any other questions?

Well, thank you.

Just a comment.

I'm super excited to work with you on this.

I think it, I mean, like you said, it is it is one of the most it's the foundation and everything else, you know, sort of they they speak to each other, but it's it's like a vision, and it's it's it can be really boring work if you let it be, but it can also be really fun and rewarding, and I'm really excited to do it in my new community.

So great.

We are too small.

I smell volunteerism here.

So yes, you do.

Like we can lean hard on that.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Okay, we're now gonna move on to item F, which is public hearings ordinances and resolutions.

And I'm going to um, I think I have to open this up, right?

Yeah.

I'm gonna open the public hearing.

The council will now consider the second reading of ordinance 2026-02 amending force groves development code, article eight, development standards, and article 12 uses use categories and definitions.

File number three one one-two five dash zero zero zero zero two five dash PLNG.

Do any counselors have a conflict of interest to declare?

Not seeing any.

Are there any additional comments or evidence that staff would like to enter into the record?

No, Mayor Winsel.

Thank you very much.

Okay, does the council have any questions for staff?

Saying none.

What is the will what the will of the council?

That we pass ordinance two zero two six dash zero two.

Okay.

Second.

Second.

Okay.

Ordinance zero or two zero two six-zero two was moved by councilor Martinez and seconded by council president Valenzuela.

Um, is there any discussion?

Seeing no discussion.

Will the city manager please read the ordinance by title only?

Ordinance 2026-02, amending Forest Grove Development Code Article 8, development standards in Article 12, use categories and definitions.

File number 31125 000 5 PLNG.

Great.

Thank you.

Will the city recorder please call roll?

Councilor Marshall.

Yes.

Councillor Gustison.

Yes.

Council President Balanzuela?

Yes.

Councillor Schummel?

Yes.

Counselor Falconer?

Yes.

Counselor Martinez?

Yes.

Mayor Wenzel.

Yes.

The vote is seven to zero, or it's two zero two six-zero two is approved by the forest growth state council.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Thank you all.

Okay, now we're moving on to resolution two zero two six-zero six.

And I'm going to have our economic development coordinator Miles Glowacke present.

Thank you, Mayor and City Council.

Uh, this resolution is to transfer appropriations from within various funds to the economic development fund for an economic development strategic plan.

Are there any questions for me?

Any questions?

Nope.

I don't see any.

Okay.

Any questions for staff?

No.

Okay, what is the wish of the council?

Move to approve resolution 2026-06.

Second.

Okay.

Move by council present valenzuela.

Seconded by Councillor Martinez.

Okay, any discussion.

No seeing no discussion.

Okay, will the city manager read it by title only, please?

Resolution 2026-06.

Transferring appropriations within various funds for fiscal year 2025-26 for an economic development strategic plan.

Okay, all those in favor of resolution 2026-06, please say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, same sign.

Hearing none, resolution 2026-06 is approved by the force grove city council in a seven to zero vote.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, resolution 2026-07.

I'm gonna turn it over to our assistant city manager Kim Ezel.

Good evening, Mayor, members of the council.

Resolution before you tonight is to adopt the 2026 to 2028 City Council Action Plan.

Per the council rules, the city council must adopt uh short and long-term goals and objectives every year, no later than March.

Goals and objectives provide critical direction to staff regarding resource allocation for the budget and annual work plans.

The process to establish the 26 to 28 city council action plan included annual reports by department directors, a work session in December, and refinement work sessions last December and this February.

Based on these sessions, City Council identified 26 actions from Vision 2040 and past priorities to form the plan.

Uh council also noted five items to consider in the upcoming comprehensive plan, update scoping discussions, and additional 16 items to be held in an incubator and considered in future years.

Should council adopt the plan.

Staff will identify leads, resource needs, and timelines for each action.

The plan will be posted on the website and regular updates on progress will be scheduled for future council presentations and shared with the community.

Happy to answer any questions.

Okay, any questions for staff.

Seeing none, what is the wish of the council?

Move to approve resolution 2026-007 or dash 07.

Seven.

Okay.

Resolution 2026-07 was moved by councillor Feltner and seconded by Council President Valenzuela.

Any discussion.

Resolution 2026-07 adopting 2026 through 2028 City Council Action Plan.

Okay.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, same sign.

Hearing none.

Resolution 2026-07 adopting the 26-28 City Council Action Plan is approved by the Forest Grove City Council in a seven to zero vote.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor and Council.

Okay, up next is resolution 2026-08.

And I'm gonna turn that over to our city recorder.

Thank you, Council.

This resolution follows some work sessions that were held in 2025 to make some minor updates to the city manager's self-evaluation form.

Uh this is just part of the annual process that this the council is required to do as part of the evaluation.

Um I'm available for any questions.

Any questions for staff?

What is the wish of the council?

Thank you.

Moved by Councillor Gutson, seconded by Councillor Schimmel.

Any discussion from Council.

Hearing none, will the city manager please read the resolution by title only?

Sorry, do you want me to read it?

Okay.

Resolution 2026-08, adopting city manager performance evaluation and self-evaluation forms and repealing resolution number two zero two five-09.

All those in favor of the resolution, please say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, same sign.

Hearing none.

Resolution 2026-08 is approved by the Force Grove City Council.

Okay, turning the page.

We're like rolling.

Sorry.

Okay.

Resolution 2026-09.

I'm gonna turn over to our city manager, Jesse Vanderzannen.

Thank you, Mayor.

Members of the council, my staff report might be a little bit longer, so I apologize in advance.

Uh, but resolution 2026-09 deals with the purchase of real property.

It addresses our goal of community growth and specifically our action to expand green and climate resilient infrastructure and equipment, which is action 2.23.

Uh a little bit of background.

Um, as you well know, the Council Creek Regional Trail that goes from Hillsborough out to Forest Grove.

Used to be a Portland um, used to be a right-of-way by Port owned by Portland and Western Railroad.

That right-of-way was subsequently uh they abandoned that right-of-way.

So Oregon Department of Transportation became the owners.

Uh they subsequently declared that right-of-way surplus, and the main 60-foot swath of that right-of-way um was sold to TriMet, and so they are now the owner essentially of the Council Creek Regional Trail.

That's a 60-foot swath from Hillsborough all the way out to Forest Grove.

As part of that process, they have what's called remnant parcels.

These are parcels that are adjacent to the right-of-way that the Department of Transportation put up for sale.

There were two parcels that the city was interested in.

One was a 2.83 acre parcel directly south of the railroad spur that was between 23rd and Hawthorne.

The other one was the actual spur itself that came off of the right-of-way between 23rd and Hawthorne.

The city currently owns property to the north and to the south of that spur.

Uh, and we currently have a uh stormwater treatment facility on the 2.83 acre parcel uh near Hawthorne and 23rd.

And so this essentially would this resolution would um authorize a purchase and sale agreement for the city to purchase these properties and take possession of the properties.

Um the 2.83 acre parcel um appraised for $10,000 and the spur appraised for $17,400.

We have entered into agreements with the Department of Transportation to purchase those properties.

This resolution would allocate those monies to do so.

And the fiscal impact would be 27,400 total.

10,000 would come from the surface water management fund.

Uh that's to purchase the 2.83 acre parcel and the 17,400 would come from the street fund as the spur property is aligned with that purpose.

If there's any questions, I'd be happy to take them.

I do want to recognize Greg Robertson, our public works and engineering director.

He is not feeling well, so he was not able to be here this evening.

I'm stepping in for for Greg.

Um, but Greg was the one who negotiated these properties and worked with ODOT and um and with TriMed as well.

Uh and so kudos to Greg on on these on these properties.

So be happy to entertain any questions.

Questions for staff Jesse, I don't know if you mentioned this, but this allows this like these purchases um give us credit with clean water service and some of he mentioned that and I was okay.

Yeah, it's an excellent point, Mayor.

The 2.83 2.83 acre parcel um is especially good for stormwater drainage.

And by purchasing, this does give the city what's called some some developable credits, if you will.

So if we look at developing properties either on our urban renewal agency properties or maybe even city property, whether it's a police facility or whether it's an urban renewal project, this can serve as credit for stormwater uh management.

And so good point.

Thank you for reminding me.

Great.

Thank you.

Any other questions for staff?

What is the wish of the council?

Move to approve resolution 2026.

Second.

Thank you.

Resolution 2026 was moved by Council President Valenzuela and seconded by Councillor Martinez.

Any discussion.

Just how great Greg is.

Yeah.

Well, shout out to Greg.

Yeah.

Pass it on.

Thank you, Councilor Martinez.

Um, okay.

Uh will the city manager please read it by this very long title, title only.

Resolution number 2026-09.

Resolution authorizing the city manager or designee to sign purchase agreement and complete the purchase of a railroad spur property located on the southwest corner of Hawthorne and 23rd.

Tax lot number, no, excuse me, no tax lot number and identification for the spur.

And 2.83 acres of property located in the southeast quarter of section 31, Township 1 North, Range 3 West, WM, Washington County Tax Lot 1N331 DC 0610.

Perfect.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed.

Hearing none.

Resolution 2026-09 is approved with a seven to zero vote.

Moving on to resolution 202610.

I will turn it back over to Jesse.

All right.

Thank you, Mayor.

Members of the council.

Resolution 2026-10 is regarding an intergovernmental agreement with Washington County for the administration of the contamination reduction program.

It does pertain to our community growth goal of environmentally sustainable and climate conscious community for all.

It also addresses Action 2.23, which is to expand green and climate resilient infrastructure and equipment.

A little bit of background on this.

In 2021, the Oregon legislature passed what was called the Recycling Modernization Act to improve recycling in Oregon.

Essentially, the RMA, or what they call the RMA, charges a per ton assessment to entities that produce packaging products that can be recycled.

Those monies then get eventually they go to either a local municipality or a solid waste producer, and those monies are then used to try and reduce, reuse, and recycle.

The RMA collects $3 per capita to accomplish this objective.

And essentially the monies are split 50-50.

So 50% of the funds go to solid waste providers for Forest Grove, that is waste management.

The other 50% go to local governments, and that's principally to do education and awareness associated with uh recycling uh monetization.

The Department of Environmental Quality went through a rulemaking process, and then they went through what was called a competitive proposal process, and they selected the Circular Action Alliance or CAA to administer the recycling modernization act program.

That is a nonprofit.

They are responsible for essentially collecting the funds and dispersing the funds in accordance with the program's goals and objectives.

Some of those eligible expenses associated with the RMA program are transportation, contamination evaluation, contamination reduction programming, recycling service expansion identified in the needs assessment, the purchase of post-consumer recycled content collection containers, or more recycling containers.

Those are some of the eligible expenses.

So over the past about year and a half, uh see city staff from Washington County from what's called the Washington County Watershed Technical Committee, which includes the cities of Cornelius, Durham, Hillsboro, King City, North Plain, Sherwood, Tiger Toileton, Beaverton, and of course Forest Grove have been meeting over the past approximately 18 months on how to best administer the recycling modernization act.

This uh structure, if you will, the recycling, excuse me, the Washington County Watershed Technical Committee is really a framework that was established from an intergovernmental agreement that was done clear back in 2011 with all of the same cities.

At that time, it was to administer what was called the annual waste reduction program.

And it was a very similar framework that we're seeing now in this proposed IGA.

So essentially the framework was the same.

A lot of the programming requirements were the same.

The Recycling Modernization Act is a new program, a bolstered program.

And now this is an intergovernmental agreement to implement that program, essentially using the same framework that is in existence and has been in existence for approximately 15 years under a previous intergovernment agreement.

Um the fiscal impact is that Forest Grove is eligible to receive approximately $80,000 per year under the RMA.

However, 50% of that comes straight off the top and goes to waste management for uh recycling services.

The other 50% goes to the city.

Essentially, what this IGA would do is take that the remaining funds and have the Circular Action Alliance give those to Washington County to basically implement the program.

What that would include is establishing an annual work plan for contamination reduction, providing the work uh that requires technical expertise, including plan development, data collection, compilation, data compliance, report writing, etc.

Performing field work, including customer facing contamination reduction education materials, technical assistance, public forums on how to reduce um waste, and then uh coordinating with the garbage and recycling collection companies and with DEQ filing the necessary reports to assure their state compliance.

Um, and then last uh establishing program criteria and seeking reimbursement and applying for contamination reduction funds from CAA itself.

I know that was a mouthful, so if there's any questions, I'd be happy to try and answer them.

That concludes my report.

Thank you.

Any questions?

Seeing none or hearing none.

I don't know, is it saying none or hearing none?

But anyways, um, what is the wish of the council?

Move to approve resolution 2026-10.

Okay, resolution 2026-10 was moved by counselor Falkner and seconded by Counselor Marshall.

Any discussion?

No, I don't see or hear any.

Okay.

Um, all those in favor.

Oh, wait, no.

Can you please read it by title only?

Resolution number 2026-10, resolution authorizing the city manager to execute an intergovernmental agreement between the city of Forest Grove and Washington County for administration of the contamination reduction program.

Thank you.

All those in favor approving resolution 2026-10, please say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed.

Hearing none, resolution 2026-10 is approved by the Forest Grove City Council.

We're rolling.

We are rolling.

Speedy.

Okay, so we're gonna now move on to council communications.

I'll start with our council president.

Yes, and I'll keep on rolling because the PAB meeting was canceled for this month, and the library meeting is not until Wednesday.

So I'll have news for you at the next meeting.

Perfect.

Thank you, Councilor President.

But looking forward to our state of the city on Thursday.

Well, Counselor Falkner.

Nothing to report.

Counselor Gaffsison.

Nothing.

Rolling.

Counselor Marshall.

Um, uh sorry, parks and rec meetings on Wednesday, so I'm more to um discuss then, but I did want to say that the Forest Grove High School Wrestling Team placed third in state wrestling.

That's so cool.

Really good job.

Good job.

That's like so the team placed third.

That's huge.

Never in the history of they placed.

Yeah, I was gonna say I don't know.

It's really good.

It's a good program.

Good job.

Also, Nike.

Yeah, very cool.

Okay.

Councilor Martinez.

So Sister City Committee, um, they're continuing to talk about what they need to do to become a 501c3.

Um, at some point they'll want to um have space on our agenda so that they can come forward with a resolution.

But they will, once they're ready, they'll let us know.

Uh, and then on the rural fire district board.

Um, they're getting ready to they've agreed on a sign to put up at the Gaston um fire station.

Uh that they want to do there's some other things that they're changing as far as um their accounting who's handling their books.

And then um information that I will be sharing um at our state of the city is how um well we're doing now with the additional three firefighters because we're a this for February we were able to staff two fire trucks 100% of the time.

Which helps our response times for the community, plus it also helps with the um firefighters so that they're not constantly on the road, they get time a little downtime to rest between to eat to care for themselves too.

So yeah, it's it's great.

This how things are going now.

Great.

Thank you, Council Audience.

I should oh, I'll let Brian talk about it.

No, okay.

So Friday night, Counselor Schimmel, Counselor Gestiffson and I attended the firefighters gala.

Oh funny.

And it was really nice.

It was really great to um celebrate the firefighters and their accomplishments and see them get their awards and the um chaplains there also, how they support the firefighters.

Um it was really a good time just helping them celebrate their accomplishments and great food, it was a wonderful atmosphere.

It was a good awesome.

I'm glad you guys were able to attend.

Great.

Okay, next up is Councillor Schimmel.

Uh on economic development commission, I want to uh maybe reiterate uh a subtle point in our earlier URA uh board work session.

The their contribution is pretty considerable regarding the URA grant program and evaluation.

So when you know when Kim and Miles present to us, it's it's following robust interaction or contribution from them.

Um so that's a great uh model for how our boards of commissions uh contribute to our our objectives, and then likewise with CCE, you know, it's another that's another eager bunch ready to support our priorities in meaningful ways.

So the police facility bond is one area that they they hope they can contribute, and we're just waiting for some legal guidance on the scope and nature relative to staff.

Um, but they're eager there.

They're also uh had initiated this uh board buddies program where if you haven't seen them in your respective board or commission, uh they're they're present to bring back to CCE what what is it might be relevant for them to participate in.

Uh so that'll continue.

The the TV Highway Transit and Safety Project, uh the specifically the policy and budget committee that I that I liaison on has resumed.

Um it now has shifted from metro to trimet uh project management.

Uh this project's intended to improve travel times, reliability, accessibility, safety uh for transit writers.

Uh the the just to jump to the service open uh target is fall of 2030, so we're still years away.

Um the there's a community uh advisory committee that advises the project as a separate community oriented committee that uh that there's a person actually from Forest Grove who who sits on the committee itself with us.

Uh so having not only someone from that committee present, but someone from Forest Grove to meet, you know, our uh emphasize our interest is uh a pleasure.

The um the one the one point that was quite a surprise to the the committee this last time uh was the prospect of a 60-foot bus versus 40 and where the 40 was preferred by all um and would better serve the community, particularly in terms of accessibility and various types of um mobility devices and different types of bikes.

The the the hangup is the Merlow um uh substation that that would service those buses cannot accommodate a 60 foot bus.

Or that what they said it was would it would cost another 250 million dollars to upgrade the station.

So it's it was sort of a deflating uh limitation that unless by a miracle 250 million dollars shows up to upgrade the station, you know, we're basically stuck with a 40 foot diesel bus.

Um so that's the condition today.

You know, there's a lot of years ahead, and you know, miraculous things could happen, but uh so that's the one the one area one important point that we're we're we're restricted to right now.

Uh otherwise it will, yeah, the the committee will be meeting uh every other month to just see the the progress through.

Uh otherwise it will yeah the the committee will be meeting uh every other month to just see the the progress through cool thank you uh city manager report please just uh a couple things really quick um the Eastside Park project is out for bid as well as the uh parks and recreation and open space master plan that is also out for bid um the city staff budget instructions were delivered uh last week and so city staff is busy looking at both the capital and the operating budgets uh vis-a-vis the budget committee meetings which are coming up as a friendly reminder on May 12th and if a second meeting is necessary on May 19th so please mark your calendars for that the only other thing I would mention is between the period of July 1st uh and December 31st the fund for all fund from parks and recreation awarded 8400 to uh those um folks who needed assistance participating in some of our activities so that's all I have thank you mayor well that's great news thank you okay so a few things on region one transportation each act um was asked or tasked to identify their top CIP priorities and so region one recommended the I5 Rose quarter improvement which is House Bill 2017 TV Highway Investment Bus Rapid Transit Project Sunrise Corridor Phase 2 Expressway 205 to 192nd the historic Columbia River Highway um trail completion and then arterial safety investment so that was the five we sent and then we had a second meeting and we were able to um say whether backup projects or in the queue projects and that was a robust conversation that came out with like no action.

So some of the things we could say are safety projects um that are based on data 217 had a project boon bridge these are some of the ones that I had pinged um I guess the ones that I would have added afterwards would have been like the safety projects and jurisdictional transfers and paving but the act seems to think some people in the act don't want to put any other CIP projects on it.

They just want to focus on the five um but I don't know what the the chair of that meeting just wanted to have a discussion and no action that day.

So that's what we just talked about those things.

So I'm commissioner Trees and I are having some scheduling issues but uh in the chair in the Washington County chair plus mayor meeting uh there's a couple commissioners tasked to talking to mayors about the vehicle registration tax increase um and so I'm trying to work that out with uh commissioner trees's office and then something that's fun is there's a pilot program for drones as part of emergency response team for Washington County.

So like it the drones might show up first or might show up with them but they're doing a little pilot program with that.

So that sounds fun and interesting.

I don't really know too much more than that.

Just a friendly reminder that the state of the city is this Thursday at 5 30 if you're speaking in person um I don't know if you've been chaired the whole draft but you'll just be you'll come up on stage like right before after your um thing I'm also gonna announce the the winners of the if I were mayor contest and some other things it should be a really good time and I just want to I don't know if anyone watches this but I just want to thank Stephanie and Joyce for their work on the state of the city.

Um that's just a huge project and they've done a lot and that's addition to all the other things on their work plan.

Uh we're taking a group of M Yeah four M Yak students to DC and we leave on Sunday and come back on like after the conference.

One thing I do want to say is we talked about the budget meeting is we I'm just gonna own it I feel like I'm really doing a disservice to that group because I don't have the the capacity to reach out to other like cities and coordinators to think about volunteer opportunities and really like do that.

Most other cities that have MYACs have staff that's helping them and I know that we are it's funny because I like to call our staff small but mighty and then I heard Jamie at the DC trip call tell the parents like you know we work on a skeleton crew here.

And I was like you know the perspective but that was good for me to hear because like I do feel that it probably feels like they're overworked and undervalued at times.

And so I I don't necessarily want staff to take on the MYAC but we just have to figure out some way.

I don't know if it's through an internship.

But I just I'm really happy to see youth involvement it's been like a personal goal and I think it's good for secession and good for the city but I just don't think I'm doing I can't I just literally cannot like do the things I should be doing for that group um in terms of connecting them with other youth organizations.

So just bring that up for budget or intern opportunities.

So putting it so you guys can simmer about that.

And that's all I have.

So with that I'm gonna adjourn this meeting thank you very much.

Have a good night early the earliest meeting