The Lake Oswego City Council met on November 4, 2025, to consider a proclamation, public comments, consent agenda, and several business items. Key actions included adoption of the 2026 solid waste/recycling rates (Resolution 25-45), enactment of a new Community Health and Resiliency Advisory Board charge (Ordinance 2972), and adoption of a fair housing policy amendment to the comprehensive plan (Ordinance 2967). All votes were 6-0.
Good evening, everyone. Today is November 4th, 2025, and this meeting of the Lake Oswego City Council is now called to order. Ms. Ono, will you please call the roll? Mayor Buck. Here. Councillors Windland. Burdick. Here. Corrigan. Councillor Raf is excused. Counselors Afgan. Maboop. Thank you very much. Everyone, will you please stand and join us in the pledge? I pledge allegiance to the play of the United States of America. Thank you, everyone. So no November is National Native American Heritage Month, which is a time to celebrate the cultures, languages, and histories of Native American, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, and affiliated island communities. The city of Lake Oswego honors the ancestral lands of the Clackamas, Chinook, Klowala, Towalaton, Wallala, Mulnoma, Silets, and Calapuya peoples. These indigenous communities have stewarded this region for generations. This proclamation acknowledges the federal trust responsibility and moral obligation of the United States to uphold commitments to tribal nations. It also recognizes the enduring contributions of indigenous people to the nation's cultural fabric, environmental stewardship, and shared history. The City of Lake Oswego reaffirms its commitment to honoring tribal sovereignty, fostering mutual respect and understanding and promoting a community where indigenous voices are recognized and celebrated. We'll have a copy of our Native American Heritage Month proclamation on the city website. Okay, next on our agenda is public comment. If you are here to provide public comment and have not already done so, please just fill out one of the white forms on the on the back table, but have two folks signed up. Sherry Dupuis, you are first. Welcome. Come on forward, and if you just restate your name for us before you begin, that'd be great. I'm Sherry Dupuis. History gives us ideas about how people in the past have dealt with similar circumstances, and seeing patterns helps the team make better decisions. Then I was taken aback when I went to Portland and met two people who said they would never step foot in LO because of the discrimination they had received from the police here. So I wanted to know more about my city and started going to these council meetings and to respond to racism. Now, when I hear people disparage us outside of the city, I truthfully can say the things that we're doing and be proud. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Puile. We appreciate those comments. Good evening. If you could also please restate your name before you. So that's 234 kids in their families that have been impacted. We've also had to cut our practice times by 33%. My daughter used to have a 90-minute practice. Now it's 60, so we can get our kids all in the pool at Lewis and Clark. Sometimes there's more than eight kids per lane, which is not as effective when you're training and kids are trying to avoid each other swimming down the lane. And our young kids are sometimes not finishing with practice until 7:30 or 8 o'clock at night. Parents having to get them home and showered and fed and to bed for school the next day. In addition, there's other families that have been impacted. We haven't been able to take any new swimmers on the club this year. So we've had people that have moved to the area with kids who swam elsewhere, wanted to join the club.