Good evening.

I'd like to call this me of the Forest Grove City Council to order.

Will our city recorder please call roll?

Council President Valenzuela.

Here.

Councilor Shimmel?

Here.

Councillor Martinez.

Here.

Counselor Marshall.

Here.

Mayor Wenzel.

Here.

We acknowledge the land on which Forest Grove is located, rests on the traditional billet sites of the At Palati, a tribe of the Calipua who originally inhabited the Tewalaton Plains, including Forest Grove.

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

Now will the audience and the council please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty, thank you.

We will now move on to item B on our agenda, which is public comment.

Time provided for anyone wishing to speak to the 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 the raise hand option to be called on.

We have one person signed up for public comment, and that is David Dion.

Thank you.

I would like to ask you today what the purpose of ICE is.

Not just ICE, but the National Guard, the FBI, DHS, in short, the agencies that our government uses to engage in violence.

It's a powerful question.

Of course, there is a level on which it answers itself.

These agencies exist to put armed people with orders into places where the government wants them to be.

But that answer is taught logical.

It points us to an even more important question.

What is the purpose of armed people going into our communities?

At this point, I fall back on an old adage.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

With that in mind, I implore you to look at what the federal government has done with the agencies it controls.

Communities are living in fear.

DHS, ICE, and the National Guard did that.

Multiple cities, Minneapolis, Chicago, Memphis, Portland, have been described as war zones under full-blown occupation.

DHS, ICE, and the National Guard did that.

Families have been torn apart.

DHS, ICE, and the National Guard did that.

People have been assaulted, arrested, and killed in the street for exercising their First Amendment rights.

DHS, ICE, and the National Guard did that.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

How willing are we to see these purposes carried out in Forest Grove?

Thank you.

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

Michael Miller.

And I forgot to ask, is there anyone in the audience who may not have signed up for public comment who would like to give public comment?

Seeing none, we're going to move on to item C on the agenda.

The consent agenda.

Items under the consent agenda are considered routine and will all be adopted with a single motion without separate discussion.

Counselors who wish to remove an item from the consent agenda may do so prior to the motion.

Any item or items removed will be discussed and acted upon following the approval of the remaining items.

What is the wish of the council?

Move to approve.

Thank you.

The consent agenda was moved by Councilor Martinez and seconded by Council President Valenzuela.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed.

Hearing none.

The consent agenda is approved by the Forest Grove City Council in a 520 vote.

Additions and deletions.

City Manager, do you have any additions or deletions?

I have no additions or deletions.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you.

Any proposed by council.

Seeing none, we will now move on to item E, which is presentations, and we have our library director, Miss Colleen Winters, to update us on the library IGA with W with the county.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

I was here about a month ago to give you an update on the IGA and the process.

And I'm here tonight just to tell you what's happened since then, which is pretty focused on a singular item, but I'm happy to answer any questions you I'm not I don't intend to go through the whole report that I gave you a month ago.

But if you have any questions about that or anything you want to talk about before we get to the only significant change to what you heard last month, I'm happy to um chat about that.

Are there any questions about anything from last update?

Okay, no.

Okay.

So having said that, then I would uh refer you to um page 11.

I'm sorry, page 10.

Um you'll note that the uh so what we're going to talk about tonight is the uh county's general fund and the relationship to um the transfers and like that, the the money is what we're going to talk about.

So the um on page 10, you'll note that the first bullet under regarding county general fund allocations addresses the current language in the current IGA.

The second bullet speaks to the what was proposed.

Um tonight we're going to talk about what the new proposed language is based on conversations, meetings, um, communicates that have happened between the member libraries and their jurisdictions and the Washington County Board of Commissioners.

Um at the uh May 19th, the next page, if we can move on, has the new language that is now proposed to replace the current language.

This happened at their May 19th work session.

Um this is the revised language that is now proposed and has been, I think, as of today, added to the IGA that you have for your consideration.

I don't think I'm gonna read it out loud.

I think you can see that um, or the language there is um again the result of a lot of conversations and communiques from other cities, mayors, uh, executive board, um, library directors.

A lot of people have had something to say about the current language and the proposed language, and this is the result of that.

I mean, I have some, are you done with her?

Can we ask questions or I'm not trying to cut you off?

I just have so many thoughts about this.

The only other changes come on the next slide, which is just about the timeline, and there's nothing particularly um dramatic about that.

Today there was a meeting where they um intended to authorize the signing process and the uh final version of the IGAs that they were asking the members to sign.

So I guess my question is that when the county came back with this new language, what did they um assert was any different from the language they had proposed?

Because I don't see any, I mean, I I don't see any difference.

I don't know if this isn't the manager would like to speak to that, or does he trust that I can respond?

I don't know.

I think if you toggle back to the last slide, please, or the previous slide.

So the initial proposed language was projected county general fund transfers are determined through the county's annual budget process.

And then the next slide, if you move go forward, Mariah, please.

I I think mayor, there's a there's a recognition about the kind of historical perspective and the allocation of general fund monies, but it doesn't obligate the county to contribute general fund as part of the formula.

So in that effect, it's the same as the previous slide.

Yeah, I'm just gonna go on public record as saying that I value the relationship between Washington County and the city of Forest Grove.

And in my time as mayor, I have continually worked towards strengthening that relationship.

Uh recently, the county asked all the mayors to endorse the library levy, and we did.

And community members helped pass that library levy.

And it appears to me that we did this work and community members showed up and said, hey, we really value the library, which is great because I think the community does.

And it feels to me as now the board is saying, oh, well, we have these additional funds.

And so historically, one of the main things the county has serviced our libraries.

Right?

That historically has always been part of the general fund.

And now they're saying, you know, it's our discretion how we do it.

I I don't, I mean, I'm gonna be pretty honest with my community, is that I don't know.

I'm gonna continue talking to my commissioner.

I'm gonna continue talking to other commissioners and other mayors, but I don't know what leverage I have right now because the county got what they needed from us.

They got us helping them pass this levy, and now it doesn't feel like it is a partnership.

It's like we got what we needed from you, and now we're gonna make this decision how we want to make it.

Um and I think it's in the long run gonna hurt the trust that community members have with Washington County in any future levy.

Sorry, I know I don't need to tell you that, but I'm just very frustrated.

Sorry.

Any other I mean, I don't know, do you want any questions now, or did you have more of a presentation?

I kind of derailed your whole thing.

Sorry, Pauline.

I'm just listening.

Any questions?

I just agree with you, Mayor.

It's it is frustrating and you feel deceit, you know.

I I feel and I'm sure many members of the community will feel the same when they begin to realize that this has happened.

I think the only thing I would add is just having sat through a number of these meetings, discussions.

I've been to the board meetings, um, I've been through the executive board meetings, I've been to policy group meetings where all of this is discussed.

And I think I think the board the Washington County Board of Commissioners heard a lot about this.

Um I think they heard generally a consistent message, and um I guess that's all I can contribute.

I don't I didn't I think the process of communicating to the board of commissioners about what jurisdictions and member libraries thought about this.

I think that was pretty thorough.

Um so that's sorry, that's not very helpful, but it's true.

Counselor Schummel.

I concur with what comments.

It's a it's a distress based on past practices, whether you're talking about misstip or other levied funds that get siphoned away, and our only recours is through our public education on our expectations, what what the levy states, what we advocated for, and relative what what we receive.

Um the the only other question I had was in their work session, they were deliberating between a one-year and five year.

I'm assuming it's gonna be a five-year in the agreement.

Um I would have been in favor of the one year just to get through.

Sorry.

Sorry, we tried.

Yeah.

Well, well, they discussed it, but um, I think in the end they decided on five year, but I mean I think what's I think what the public can appreciate is when someone is asked for feedback, it's important for the the one engaging to reflect how that feedback gets incorporated into the content of a policy or agreement.

And I I listened to the county work session from last week, and the narrative is two years of engagement, but I'm not seeing that feedback being incorporated well to the degree that the feedback was rigorously given.

And I was really offended that there seemed to be this contempt for feedback suggesting that getting so many calls from mayors now was conveniently late and disingenuous when uh when our agreement was only received two weeks ago, and that doesn't line up with public meeting process that we honor.

The behaviors is what's really disingenuous in the distrust zone over time and uh like I said, the only request we have is through our own public education and continued appeals through each budget cycle.

Okay, any other questions or comments.

Yeah, and you know, I hope I I hope you know that our comments aren't directed towards you, like we know you've been saying through all these meetings, and I and I think that you know, Counselor Schumel brought up a really good point.

The process of going through this IGA, the way that it was presented, my understanding to staff is very piece by piece by piece, like they didn't give us the whole agreement months ago.

So when they say like, oh, well now we're just hearing from you.

Well, you didn't talk about the money until a few weeks ago.

Like the most important part of the agreement didn't come out until you're gonna vote on it weeks later.

So anyways, we'll just keep fighting the good fight.

The libraries are really important and we need to support libraries.

We need to support public safety, and you know, I I'm frustrated, but I also don't want my frustration to be a message of not supporting services that are essential, they're essential services to our community.

Um it's more of the process, the system and the process.

So thank you, Colleen.

Oh, one more thing from Councillor Simon.

Since I was so aggressive in my remarks, I I sh I should acknowledge that Commissioner Willie went to bat for us last week.

He he exposed the issue to the almost to the point of uh declaring dishonesty.

Um so I I do want to give uh our commissioner credit for representing us.

Well, okay, thank you.

We are now gonna move on to item F on our agenda, which and we have a number of resolutions and public hearings.

So let me get my let me chill out, take a breath.

Okay, get on to my so I'm gonna call our assistant city manager Kim Ezell up and are we on 2152?

Okay.

I will now open the public hearing on resolution 202615 and 202616 if approved by the city council.

These resolutions will certify the services of the city that sorry, will certify the services the city will provide and declare the city's election to receive state revenues.

Do any counselors have a conflict of interest to declare hearing none?

Uh I'm gonna change it.

Our assistancy manager Kim Ezel will now present the staff report.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Tonight I'm talking to you about the certifying services and declaring cities election to receive state revenues resolutions in order to receive state revenue sharing.

The city is required by the state to annually elect to participate in the state revenue sharing program and to certify city services.

The tax resolution resolutions fulfill the requirement of certifying the services provided by the city and electing to receive state revenues for fiscal year 2026 through 2027.

The certification needs to be completed annually, even though the city has started doing a biannual budget process.

For fiscal year 2026 to 2027, the city is projected to receive about 450,000 in alcohol tax revenue, about $15,000 in cigarette tax revenue, approximately 41,000 in state marijuana tax revenue, and approximately 300,000 in state revenue sharing and approximately 2.2 million dollars in state gasoline tax revenue.

Happy to answer any questions.

Please state your name and the city of residence for the record.

And whether you are a proponent, opponent, or other comments.

Are there any members of the audience or on Zoom who would like to provide public testimony?

Hearing none, the hearing is now closed.

Is there a motion from council to approve the resolutions?

Move to approve second.

Council President Valenzuela moved to approve, and councillor Martinez seconded the motion.

Will oh, are there any additional questions or discussions from the council?

Hearing none.

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

Resolution 2026-15, certifying services provided by the city of Forest Grove.

Thank you.

Will the city recorder please call rule?

Counselor Schimmel.

Yes.

Counselor Martinez?

Yes.

Counselor Marshall?

Yes.

Council President Valenzuela?

Yes.

Mayor Wenzel.

Yes.

The vote is 5 to 0.

Resolution 2026 15 and 202616 are approved by the Force Grove City Council.

Thank you.

We're going to move on to our next resolution, which is resolution 202617.

Hang on, I need to um before we move on.

I do think we need to approve 2026-16 as well.

Oh, I only did one of them.

Yeah.

Okay, sorry.

Can we please read?

I just have to have him read the title.

Can you please read the title only?

Resolution 2026-16 declaring the city's election to receive state revenues.

Okay, is there any discussion from council?

What is the or is there a motion from council?

Motion to approve.

Second.

We already had a motion, right?

Am I fine?

For 16 or 15, not 16.

Okay.

So it's moved by councilor marshall and seconded by counselor martinez.

And then do I need to have city manager read it by yes?

Can you read it by title only again, please?

Resolution 2026-16 declaring the city's election to receive state revenues.

Thank you.

Will the city recorder please call roll?

Councilor Martinez?

Yes.

Counselor Marshall?

Yes.

Council President Valenzuela.

Yes.

Councillor Schimmel?

Yes.

Mayor Wenzel.

Yes.

The vote is 5 to 0.

Resolution 2026 16 are approved by the Force Grove City Council.

Okay.

Now we will move on to 202617.

I will now open the hearing on resolution 202617.

If approved by the city council, the resolution will adopt a capital improvement program excise tax for the 2026-2027.

Do any counselors have a conflict of interest to declare?

No.

I will now ask our assistant city manager Kim Ezell to present the staff report.

Thank you, Mayor.

The Capital Improvements Program Excise Tax, also known as the CIP excise tax, was initiated in 1990 and is required by ordinance to be reauthorized by resolution each fiscal year.

The city code requires that 90% of the proceeds for the tax be used to fund public safety capital needs and the remaining 10% be used in general government programs.

The city expects to collect about 407,000 in the fiscal year 26-27 from this tax and will use the funds to purchase police vehicles and fire apparatus, remodel the fire department's lobby, and replace the Rogers Park carousel.

Staff are not proposing to increase the fee for the coming fiscal year, and the fee has remained the same since 2014.

Happy to answer any questions.

Thank you very much.

Any questions for Seth?

Hearing none.

I will now call on persons who signed up to comment on the resolution.

Comments are limited to three minutes.

Please state your name and city of residence for the record and whether you are a proponent, opponent, or other comment.

Are there any members of the audience who would like to provide public testimony?

Hearing none.

Any on Zoom?

Hearing none.

The hearing is now closed.

Is there a motion from council to approve the resolution?

Motion to approve resolution 2026-17.

Second.

Thank you.

Motion 2026-17 is moved by Councilor Marshall and seconded by Council President Valenzuela.

Are there further or additional questions or further discussion from council?

Hearing none.

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

Resolution 2026-17, adopting capital improvements program excise tax and repealing resolution 2025-30.

Thank you.

City recorder, please call the roll.

Councilor Marshall.

Yes.

Council President Valenzuela?

Yes.

Councilor Schimmel?

Yes.

Councilor Martinez?

Yes.

Mayor Wenzel.

Yes.

The vote is 5 to 0.

Resolution 202617 is approved by the Force Grove City Council.

Okay.

Moving on.

Okay.

We are now on to resolution 202618.

I will now open the public hearing on resolution 2026-18.

If approved by the city council, this resolution will set fees and charges for the two the twenty twenty-five-2027 biennial budget year.

Do any counselors have a conflict of interest to declare?

City Manager Jesse Van Der Zannen will now present the staff report.

Thank you, Mayor, members of the council.

Um section 34.02 of the city code states that licenses, permits, and fees shall be adjusted by council resolution every year, effective in July.

Section 3403 states that the adjustment should be based on the Portland Consumer Price Index or CPI or the percentage of the wage adjustment for city employees unless a cost of service analysis has been conducted.

Wage increases for fiscal year 26-27 range between three to four percent.

The Portland West Coast CPI range from 2.7 to 3.5% in calendar year 26.

Staff are proposing to raise fees by 3% in SEPT in specific cases noted below, which I'll go over briefly where a cost of service analysis was done.

Just by point, last year's fee amounts are rounded to the nearest quarter dollar to simplify transactions and minimize the need for small change.

This trend continued to the half dollar this year for fees under $15 and to the whole dollar for fees over $15.

Standard rounding was used to arrive at the final fee.

Last, some fees remain unchanged, including those set by the state, for example, the liquor licenses or other agencies such as the Washington County Cooperative Library Services.

Now for those items that are um apart from the three percent for business licenses, we have very few permits that are in the 31 to 60 day category.

They're mostly in the zero to 30 day category.

So staff is proposing to combine those two categories.

So a temporary permit would be from zero to sixty days.

And we are proposing to apply the fee that the lower of the fees, which was the fee that applied to the zero to the 30 days, that would now be good for a zero to sixty day temporary business license.

Liquor licenses are already went over.

Those would be uh reduced back to the state level.

I would just say that the city did not apply the city administered fee for liquor licenses last year.

It used the state fee.

For motor vehicle and fire public safety incidents, we're proposing to keep the fee the same this year and not raise it.

For the Rogers room, there are some capital improvement changes, such as a new divider that we are looking at doing.

Also the cost of um utilizing that room uh exceeds the current fee for that room.

And and we also did a market analysis and it showed that it's significantly low below the market value.

So we are proposing to raise that fee by 10%, I believe from $19 to $21.

Uh, we're also proposing to implement an out of city rate.

Uh currently for most of our facility rentals, we have an out-of-city rate of a 30% differential.

So if you are not in Forest Grove and you are outside the city, you would pay a 30% increase in the fee uh that would be charged to uh in-city um persons.

So we're proposing to do an out-of-city rate for the Rogers room.

Uh same thing for the community auditorium.

We're proposing uh to add a 30% out-of-city rate differential for the community auditorium.

Um interestingly, there's also a non-for-profit and a for-profit fee differential for the community auditorium.

That's the only place here is the only place that has that existing fee differential.

So staff was wanting to take a look at all of our facility rentals over the coming year uh and and look to see if that may be applicable to to our other facilities as well.

But for this year, we're proposing a 30% out of city differential for for the community auditorium.

Uh for the pool and these the spray park rental.

Um, we are proposing um to do a 10% cost in just the rental fee.

This is not the admission fees, this is just for if you have a private rental, whether it's in the classroom or whether it's at the pool.

We did a cost of service analysis for that, and the cost of providing that service uh does does exceed the fee.

And then last for the parks facility rental light fee, that's the fee that you pay if you rent the lights at one of the facility fields.

Recall that last year uh the facility field fee itself um is no longer on the fee schedule.

Uh we're actually proposing to reduce that fee a little bit and round down from 61.25 to 61 dollars per hour.

Uh the um other the the fee is for other rentals, it's um $31, I believe, and then it's $61 for larger facilities.

And lastly, we're proposing an out-of-city rental uh rate differential for those rental lights as well, and that would be 30% commensurate with all of the other facility rentals.

So unless there is questions, that concludes my staff report.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, members of the council.

Thank you, Jesse.

Any questions?

Go ahead, Councilor Schemmel.

Confirming these are adjustments to existing fees, no new fees.

Pardon?

These are adjustments to existing fees, no fees.

Yep, yep.

There's no no new uh no new fees.

Yep.

And just on an aside and not necessarily to be addressed right now, but you know, we've talked about shared use agreements with Parks and Rike and the Forest Grove School District.

And I don't know if this is accurate or not, but some community members that use, you know, they are like Santos coaches, but they use the high school.

They say that our our rate for lights is different than the school district rate is for lights.

And so I'm just, you know, if that's one way we could like maybe get on the same page, like one small thing we could agree on.

Yeah, that would be amazing.

Yeah, no, that's a that's a good point, Mayor.

The school's fee are 40 an hour.

Our fees range from $30 an hour up to $61 an hour.

Uh and that is been highlighted as something that we could collaborate with the school on and ensuring there's just kind of an even fee across the board.

Yeah, I mean, it could just be I think it has to be about, I mean, ours probably range because of how many lights and it does.

Yeah.

So, anyways, it just would make our life a little easier.

Okay.

Any other questions, comments?

Hearing none, I will now call on persons who signed up to comment on the resolution.

Comments are limited to three minutes.

Please state your name and address for the record, and whether you are a proponent, opponent, or other comment.

Anyone in the audience wishing to get public testimony?

Seeing none.

Any on Zoom?

Seeing none.

The hearing is now closed.

Is there a motion from council to approve the resolution?

I move to approve 2026 18.

I'll second.

Thank you.

The motion was approved by was the motion was made by Councilor Martinez and seconded by Council President Valenzuela.

Are there any additional questions or further discussion from the council on the motion before we proceed with the roll call vote?

I think my only comment that I would like to make is I I'm really happy to see that we're trying to be consistent with our out of out of city in-city for profit, nonprofit.

I think you know, really looking at that and I like systems.

I like it to be fair.

I like people to know what to expect.

And so I think those are all really good things.

So those are my only comments.

Okay.

Uh will the city manager please read the resolution by title only.

Resolution 2026-18, setting general fees and charges effective July 1st, 2026.

And repealing resolution number 2025-32.

Will the city recorder please call roll?

Council President Valenzuela.

Yes.

Counselor Schummel?

Yes.

Councillor Martinez?

Yes.

Counselor Marshall?

Yes.

Mayor Wenzel.

Yes.

The vote is five to zero.

Resolution two zero two six one eight is approved by the Forest Grove City Council.

Thank you.

Next up is I want to say our police chief, David Morzilli with resolution two zero two six one nine.

Hi, Chief.

How are you?

I am good.

How are you?

I'm well, thank you.

Thank you, Mayor, and members of the council.

Um, this is a request to uh approve an intergovernmental agency agreement between uh the city of Forest Grove and the Forest Grove School District.

Um, as you know, we have had a long-standing uh cooperative relationship with the school resource officer program with the school district, and we are asking to continue that with an IGA.

Uh this new IGA is basically unchanged from the existing IGA that actually expired May 1st of this year.

Um the new IGA continues the initial term of one year and allows for an additional two one-year extensions not to exceed a total of three years altogether.

Um those two one-year extensions would be authorized by the city manager in the Forest Grove School District Superintendent to continue those.

Um it also has been updated to reflect the current wages um of the police officer and includes a four percent increase per year that the IGA is in effect.

Um the fiscal impact is unchanged, and the SRO position is included in the 2025 to 27 biannual budget.

That's uh basically that I have if you have any questions.

Okay, any questions for the chief hearing none.

What is the wish of the council?

Move to approve resolution 2026 19.

Second.

Resolution 2026 was moved by Councilor Martinez and seconded by Council Mar Councilor Marshall.

Any discussion or questions?

Or just discussion from council.

I just want to say in my other job.

Uh I think the school resource officer does a lot of really good things.

Um but one of the things that we might not realize to do is a lot of education.

So I've been fortunate enough to have the SRO come into my health class and then all the eighth grade health classrooms and talk about fentanyl and do other things, and then also just creating positive relationships between students and um law enforcement.

So officer Yance comes in and plays basketball with the kids uh fairly often at the middle school.

And it's really quite nice because he's I'm like, oh, it's nice to see you again.

He's like, this is my like stress release.

This is like how I have fun.

And so I think just showing kids like all that the resources that um police officers offer is really good.

Thank you.

Okay.

Uh will the city manager please read the resolution by title only.

Resolution 2026-19, approving an intergovernment agreement between the city of Forest Grove, excuse me, between the Forest Grove School District and the City of Forest Grove for a school resource officer and authorizing the city manager to execute the agreement.

Thank you.

All those in favor of resolution 202619, please say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed.

The resolution is approved by the city council in a vote of five to zero.

Thank you, Chief.

Thank you.

And I'm gonna call up our other chief, Chief Gearing to talk about our emergency operations plan.

Hello, Chief.

Hi, Mayor.

Good evening.

On May 11th, the fire department had an opportunity to uh provide a pretty comprehensive PowerPoint presentation on the plan.

Uh tonight, I'd like to just give a brief summary of the of the plan that's uh before you.

Uh in 1985, the city of Forest Grove adopted the first plan.

Uh through the years, there have been a number of uh uh different plans that have been adopted and updated.

The last one was in 2014, and uh so it's been quite some time and and time for an update.

Uh the EOP provides the base framework that defines operational priorities and the method of implementation the city will utilize to guide and support emergency management efforts.

Uh this EOP will be reviewed periodically when we as we exercise the plan, and then uh a full update is recommended in in five years.

The plan before you tonight complies with the national response framework, uh which includes NIMS or national uh national incident management system and the incident command system or ICS.

The plan also uh is in compliance with Oregon uh revised statute 401, which governs the uh emergency management in the state.

Uh there are three uh elements or parts to the plan.

The basic plan, the functional annexes, and then the hazard planning annex.

Approval of the plan tonight will allow us to move forward and start exercising the plan, uh, building a uh team of emergency workers for the EOC and then ensuring that our EOC is properly uh uh ready for uh the event of an emergency and that we can stand it up.

Uh that's the end of my presentation.

Happy to answer any questions.

Does anyone have any questions?

I have one question.

Do you do like drills when it says you're gonna um update the plan as it becomes operational?

But how do you know if the plan works if we don't like try it out?

I don't know.

I work in a school, we do drills once a month.

Yeah, a very good question.

And that that is part of the plan is to provide a roster of EOC workers, have them trained to work in the EOC, have a number of them trained uh in uh position specific areas so that when they take a position in the EOC, they know what their responsibility is and what the expectation is.

And uh yeah, you're right, Mayor.

Uh, in order to do that and comply with what's in the plan, we have to have that training and then put everybody together and and uh create uh simulated scenarios and exercises that will help us to do just that exercise the plan and make sure everybody knows what the expectation is.

Cool.

Exciting.

I'm glad we did it.

It was overdue.

This plan, so I'm excited.

And any other questions for the chief?

Hearing none.

Okay, what's the wish of the council?

Move to approve resolution 2026-2nd.

Thank you.

Resolution 2026-20 was moved by council president Valenzuela and seconded by Counselor Martinez.

Any discussion from the council for chatty bunch today.

Yeah.

Okay, hearing none.

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

Resolution 2026-20, adopting the city of Forest Grove emergency operations plan.

Thank you.

All those in favor of approving resolution 2026-20, please say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed.

Hearing none, resolution 2026-20 is approved by the Forest Grove City Council in a five to zero vote.

Thank you, Chief.

Okay, we're gonna move on to item six F6, which is resolution two zero two six-21.

And I'm gonna introduce our city attorney.

Is it Guymont?

Is that Emily Guimont and our Lightning Power Director?

By Keith, you're filling in.

I didn't know if it was Jesse Mice agendas and something else.

So Keith Horman, thank you very much for coming tonight too.

And I'll turn over to you all.

Well, good evening, Mayor, members of council.

Um, it's a pleasure to be in front of you today to present the resolution 2026-21, which is a um collective bargaining agreement that the city's bargaining team has tentatively agreed to with the IBW bargaining units bargaining team.

And we are here to ask you to vote yes to ratify this.

Um I'll give you a quick rundown of the highlights of this agreement, but do you know that the entire agreement proposed is in your packet if you want to do a line by line yourselves?

So this is a three-year collective bargaining agreement.

Um bargaining really centered around wages this time around.

So the wage increases that we have tentatively agreed to are as follows for the journeyman lineman positions and all other positions that are tied to that position by a percentage.

10% in year one of the contract, five percent in year two, and five percent in year three for the warehouse worker position and those who are not tied to but in the same class of wage increases as the warehouse worker, those increases are four percent in year one, three and a half percent in year two, and three percent in year three.

Um, the other big economic component of this contract is an insurance change.

We have tentatively be tentatively agreed to a move to um insurance coverage provided by Line CO, which is an insurance trust separate from the CIS provided plans that the city currently offers its employees.

Um, under the terms of that article, the city would pay 95% of the premiums associated with Line CO, which is the same as the 95% the city also pays for the CIS premiums at the bargaining unit members currently receive.

Um, this move, at least for the next plan year, presents a pretty good savings for the city, and so we have negotiated savings split language with IBW.

Um the rule is that if the city experiences savings and premium costs compared to what the city would have paid if the members had remained on the CIS offered plans, then um IBW and the city will split those savings 6040 in favor of IBEW and IBW members will receive that 60% as um the contributions in their VIPA accounts.

Um we also have a safety language built in there.

If the city does not experience any savings with line code, then the city may return to CIS offered uh plans at its at its option.

Um those are the highlights.

Uh it was good bargaining.

I want to thank uh the city staff team, my bargaining team and the staff who helped us in the background, council for their guidance when we've spoken to you of council about this a couple times, and then also to the IBEW bargaining team for um very collegial targeting and a good result.

So please vote yes.

Any questions?

Perfect.

Thanks.

Any questions?

Yeah, no questions, just a comment to y'all.

I uh you know want to thank you all and Brenda and City staff and you know, lightning power.

Um I think you know, I'm sure you don't get sick of hearing it, Keith.

But the community really loves our lightning power department.

Um, and I'm glad that you all were able to come to such a positive agreement for everybody.

So I appreciate the work that goes into it.

Okay, I don't think there's any other questions.

So is there a motion on the floor?

Move past resolution 2026-21.

Second.

Thank you.

Resolution 2026-21 was moved by Councilor Schimmel and seconded by Councilor Martinez.

Any discussion by council.

Okay.

Well, the city manager read it by title only, please.

Resolution 2026-21.

Local 125, effective July 1st, 2026, and expiring June 30th, 2029.

Right, I'm gonna have us do a roll call vote because it's a con thanks.

Councilor Schimmel?

Yes.

Counselor Martinez?

Yes.

Councilor Marshall?

Yes.

Council President Valenzuela?

Yes.

Mayor Wenzel.

Yes.

Resolution 2026-21 has been approved by the Forest Grove City Council in a five to zero vote.

Thank you all.

Okay, now we're gonna move on to item G on our agenda, which is council communications.

And I'm gonna start with our council president.

All right.

Okay.

So I had mentioned before that the policy advisory board was canceling the meetings for May and June.

However, we did receive notification that we have an emergency meeting on June 11th.

There is a scoring issue with one of our funded projects.

So I will be reporting on that next time.

All right.

And um we did meet uh the library commission um last Wednesday, and we had the pleasure of meeting Jack Buck.

Um the new uh library services supervisor.

And uh he presented to us two initiatives.

Uh one was an assessment tool handout, which is really wonderful to be able to get feedback from the staff about different projects uh that they've had and um uh guidelines on how to share the library and it has become something important that needs to be done, particularly where you have the children's area and then you have some adults there that uh kind of bothered by the noise.

I mean, you know, do have kids, they're going to make noise, right?

Right, but it is important to teach them how to behave, you know, at a library.

I agree with that.

But if a child is you know making noise, I pick up my book and I find me another corner on the other side of the library, right?

That would be my I guess.

But anyway, it it's still a very, very good, a very good idea.

Uh good news from the friends of the library.

Uh book sales record, 7,000.

Oh so it was a great success.

And uh they will adopt a meeting uh in their uh a budget in their June meeting.

Um to include the the sales from the successful uh book sale event.

Um that's that's all that's all I have from the from the library since Pauline was here.

So thank you, Council President.

I'm gonna move on to Councilor Marshall.

I actually have nothing right now.

Okay, thank you very much.

Then I'm gonna move, I'm just gonna go down the line to Counselor Martinez.

All I will need to um report on is Sister City Committee continues to work forward on their um 501c3 status.

Have they taken it to um the chamber board yet?

Or no?

They've been talking to the chamber board.

There's been some um issues with really getting together sufficiently.

So cool.

Thanks.

Uh Councilor Shimmel.

Thank you.

I might be stealing some of uh Jesse's thunder here, but I do want to talk about the an ADU uh auxiliary dwelling unit workshop held by the city staff.

Um this was held uh a couple weeks ago or just after our last meeting at Drew in about 35 highly engaged attendees.

They're very eager to uh engage with uh building and planning staff on their respective properties.

So there's a lot of good interest.

Um the next workshop will be June 10th in Cornelius.

So this is uh a joint venture with the city of Cornelius, and I thought I thought the event went went great.

Um so the next session will die delve more into the permitting uh process, and I'll have some contractors and architects present to to help uh folks along with their project.

Can I ask a question?

Um you have to go to the first session to be able to go to the June 10th session or not at all.

Uh yeah there may be some some information that's that's shared again, or at least the some of the presentation material, but the intention is that it's that folks will be able to sit down with uh an architect or uh contractor or city staff to get a little more detail.

That's great.

Yeah.

So good uh good good signal of of interest.

Uh economic development commission met this last week.

A lot of enthusiasm from the group and relation to both place making and tourism.

Uh Miles uh went through the placemaking presentation with the group, and one of the commission members shared their their own presentation on tourism concepts that I thought complemented the placemaking presentation.

One ours focusing on the location, there's focusing more on what you can do in those locations.

So there's some interest uh in being uh contributing to uh advising the council on the direction as this as that develops and also engaging with the chamber on their tourism effort.

So that was good to see the enthusiasm in the group and wanting to contribute to some of those developments.

And then on the the TV Highway Transit Project, uh you know, for context, the completion of this project is 2030.

So this is one of those recaps and where we are in that process.

Uh so the the current the activity this summer is the they're gonna do some community outreach.

So they may be reaching out to Stephanie and maybe join them on their market booth to solicit some custom or some uh community feedback on the bus stop concepts where they are in association with the the TV highway uh transit lane.

Uh so folks have a jump an opportunity to to weigh in.

The the project does have a community advisory group of a dozen people or so that has the Force Grove resident as its chair, uh, and they participate with the overall committee in our deliberations.

And my sense is that we get really good robust feedback given to to Metro, I'm sorry, not Metro TriMet throughout the course of the project.

So uh so that feels pretty solid.

This is just extending that opportunity to the general public.

Uh so as it mentioned, the project is trending toward 2030.

Uh the the big challenge right now is securing the funds.

Uh we've done our job, our task of appropriating our installment.

Uh the the next important installment is by the state securing 56 million and state commitment necessary to unlock a 150 million dollar match from the federal transportation agency.

So in the next legislative session, you know, we'll have to that'll I think in terms of our transportation priorities, we'll have to consider making that a key priority so that we we can secure that because 150 is half the project that we need from the federal government.

Yeah, I feel like what a yeah, I know when I wrap it's such a challenging project, right?

To keep engagement.

I mean, because I I was on it before you like this this has been going on for a really long time.

And so TriMet Metro Municipalities, like this challenge of keeping engagement, keeping the project moving, but it's just such a big ask, and the type of grant they're going for, you have to get that state funding, and they couldn't even pass transportation package last night.

I mean what a yeah, good job.

Keep it up with that one.

Yeah, so that that 56 million is terms of our advocacy is we'll have to determine that that's the top priority for us in the next year.

That's it.

Yeah, thank uh thank you for that is a tough one.

Everyone involved with that project.

I mean, because like when you're saying community engagement, we we did that like four years ago.

I mean, so it's like how do you keep people how do you not fatigue people with the community engagement while you're trying to secure the funding?

And it's a really needed project, right?

So yeah, yeah.

Okay, sorry.

Um, oh, that's our last council communication.

Jesse, you're up city manager report.

Thank you, Mayor, members of the council.

Um today, the city applied for the US DOT safe routes and roads for all or the SS4 SS4A program.

Um our grant was uh successfully applied and successfully uh accepted.

So uh the grant was for 11.26 million dollars, uh and the total project 14.76 million dollars, and uh the remaining amount in between uh was the local match.

So just wanted to report that we met the deadline and we had multiple letters of support.

So to those community organizations that supported us in the grant application, thank you very much.

Um a little different note, we were successful, if you recall approximately 18 months ago receiving an Oregon Department of Energy grant for 435,000 to underground some wires in a wooded area and uh by David Hill.

Uh we applied for another grant through Odo for a similar purpose.

Uh unfortunately this time around we were not successful, likely related because we were successful the last time.

Uh another report from Light and Power is we have the solar array that is being installed at uh the Forest Grove substation.

We have that out for bid.

That bid closes this Friday.

Let's go.

Um so we'll report back to council uh once we receive uh uh uh select a bid.

Um the police received over 700 pounds of prescription drugs during the drug take back event on April 25th.

That is a new record.

So um the background's killing it.

The back growth's killing it today.

Yeah.

Um the city has successfully collaborated with uh on a new intergovernmental agreement uh with Tiger for IT services.

We're sharpening the pencil on that.

We should be bringing that back to the council, likely at the next meeting.

Uh I wanted to add a little bit to Councilor Velenzuela's remarks.

Um, there is a survey uh in the children's area.

If you go into the library, it's just an area survey.

Uh it's basically asking some questions about the experience in the area.

What do you like?

What do you not like?

It's very open.

There's a QR code.

You can also take a paper survey.

That opened today, and that will be out for three weeks.

So if you're in that area and you want to take a survey, please do.

Um let's see.

Uh the friends was reported on.

Um let's see.

I was gonna re report on the ADU, but that got reported on.

Um we are working on the project advisory committee for the housing capacity analysis.

So we have sent out some invites to folks to participate on what we're calling the PAC for the housing capacity analysis.

So that's ongoing.

And then just regarding placemaking, um, the feedback we got from the council at the last perk session was we'll get some community input.

And so we are either have or in the process of scheduling meetings with Pacific, Adelante Mahedrez, Chamber of Commerce, and the Downtown Association of Forest Grove, um, and also asking those groups to involve their members in these various meetings.

So, and of course, uh Councilor Shimmel, you reported on EDC today, which was another outreach effort.

So that concludes my report.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Jesse.

Those are all like really good.

I mean, that was a good report.

Like lots of hope and lots of so thanks.

I mean, all I shouldn't say that like surprisingly, you always give a good report, but like some very good news.

I know that sounded very back-handed.

I I apologize.

Um, I just have a few things to report on.

I uh went as a an audience member for the Metro the Metro Future Vision Committee had a meeting out at the Hidden Creek um rec center in Hillsborough on the 14th of May.

So I went out to listen to kind of see what they were chatting about.

And um Yeah, it was interesting because I'm just I can't help but be blunt tonight.

I think I'm always blunt, but the people on the task force like half of them didn't show up.

So, you know, I I arrived and they had the table for the group, the committee, and then I'm in the audience.

You know, Councilor Gonzalez had invited me to attend to listen, and I'm in the audience with and there was more people in the audience, you know, because Metro always brings a very large staff.

I don't know if you guys noticed that, but Metro staff, and then myself and Jason Snyder from the county.

But anyways, that was a little bit disheartening to see.

I'm like, oh, this is a big thing, and when people don't show up.

I don't know how they're arranging it.

I don't know if it's because they go to different areas in the region.

Um anyways, so some topics they're gonna explore for drivers of change.

You know, I will say one thing that was interesting is that representative McLean was there.

She was also a guest.

She's not on the committee.

And she was on the last visioning team.

And so she reminded the group of their the last themes being seamless services in urban and rural areas, food sources, and open spaces.

Uh that was the 19.

That was the 19, so last time the vision was done was in 1995.

So now they're you know, some of their buzzwords were urgent optimism, focus on credible hope, thinking generationally, and the drivers of change.

So they were very early in the discussion.

Um those are some of the things I wrote down and heard that I've I don't know if I yeah, that were interesting.

Then I attended WCCC.

Uh I could only attend um about a half an hour because my teaching schedule was different that day.

But there was some the commission voted on some expenditure requests that will help our neighbors in Cornelius on 14th and 26th with a couple projects.

And then also Washington County had applied for 10.2 million TDT expenditure for Quatomic and Baseline.

Um, so and that was approved as well.

And then the last thing I just wanted to say thank you too is the American Legion 2 uh put on their traditional or their annual Memorial Day ceremony.

Uh Counselor Schummel attended as well, and you know, they just did a great job.

Our former police chief was the guest speaker, Dale Thaler, who's working on our Veterans Park.

He really organizes that and does a really good job.

Um I think, you know, just a good reminder.

Uh some things I heard that really stuck with me, right?

Is that what sets this country apart is that, you know, we have ideals based that come from a constitution, and that's you know, people sacrifice their life and family sacrifice for for those ideals and those principles.

And so with that, I'm gonna adjourn this meeting.

But we do have a work session following.

Thank you very much.

Good night.

Okay, but council.