Okay, you guys, we're going on air.

I call the two thousand four hundred and fortieth meeting of the Milwaukee City Council to order.

This meeting is being held in person at City Hall and by video conference.

The public may participate in this meeting by coming to City Hall or joining the Zoom webinar.

If you are interested in speaking, please let staff know by filling out a yellow comment card on the table over there for those at City Hall or emailing OCR at Milwaukee Oregon.gov for those on Zoom.gov.

So translation services are available in multiple languages.

And to the Republic for which it stands one nation undervisible with liberty and tests for all the city of Milwaukee respectfully acknowledges that our community is located on the ancestral homeland of the Clackham's people.

In 1855, the surviving members of the Clackham signed the Willamette Valley Treaty, also known as the Kalapuya, etc.

Treaty with the federal government in good faith.

We offer our respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this land.

Moving on to announcements.

Since they're kind of in date order there, I have a couple of other ones that are actually earlier than any of those.

So this Saturday, January 10th, there are two things that I know of.

First, it is um second Saturday of the month.

And so there's a work party in Minthorn Springs where the Milwaukee Parks Foundation and the uh wetlands conservancy are on the second Saturday every month from 9 30 to noon.

Come join us uh in helping create better habitat at that wetland in the middle of Milwaukee and park near Planet Fitness and walk across 37th Avenue.

The other thing this Saturday is the North Classics Watershed Council is collecting Christmas trees to turn Christmas trees into fish habitat, and they do that at the uh you can drop your tree off at North Clackwest Park at the big picnic shelter uh between 10 a.m.

and 2 p.m.

And then in two weeks on the 24th, there will be another work party to put those trees into the river down by El Rock Island.

Um so now to the things on the slide.

Join the conversation with local leaders that explores the urgent issues of housing and homelessness in our community on Wednesday, January 21st from 6 to 7.15 p.m.

at Letting Library.

The panel will examine local services and solutions for those most in need and engage in meaningful dialogue about how we can work together to ensure housing stability and compassionate support for all.

And thanks to Councillor Koshrabadi.

I think he's part of that group.

Um the Letting Library will hold their third annual puzzle swap on Sunday, January 25th from 12 to 1 p.m.

Check the city web calendar for instructions on how to participate.

And nominations are now open for the 2025 volunteer of the year.

Nominees can be anyone who resides in Milwaukee or is a member of a nonprofit organization or business that serves the Milwaukee community.

If you know someone who has gone above and beyond in 2025, please nominate them for the award by February 11th.

And that nomination form can be found on the city's homepage.

Um, for more information about each of these events, please visit the city's homepage at Milwaukee Oregon.gov or call 503 786-7555.

And then I have uh Haiku to read and the authors here today.

Uh Jennifer Murphy, home in Milwaukee.

We raise children, each other with kindness, strength, care.

Very nice.

Uh okay.

We have uh oh, we do have two heading comments.

Okay.

So we're two net part because we don't have any special proclamations or anything today.

This is part of the agenda during which council will hear community comments on city business that are not on the agenda.

Before we begin, is there any follow-up from the December 16th comments, Mr.

Brillio?

Thanks, Mayor.

Uh, there are no comments from the December 16th meeting.

You did receive two general correspondences in your packet from um Mr.

Holmquist about EV charges and uh Mr.

Burning Stout about planning and housing zoning.

Okay.

Do you want to talk about those?

Yeah.

Um happy to.

Uh for those that don't know.

Um there is a there's an aspiration for additional chargers and for additional potential enforcement on those charging stations downtown.

Um as of as what I understand right now, council is that we can obviously enforce on what is in our traffic rigs for those parking spots.

So to our parking as far as adding additional increases in those charging stations specifically, we don't have the authority or the ability to.

We don't have the authority or the ability to um and that's that's one of the pain so there's questions they're happy to address those, and then from the printing and housing side from Bernie Stout, he had a basically a very large question about our stance on the state legislation, our state legislature um providing us lots of zoning requirements that we have to follow.

And uh I have my own opinions.

You've all shared your own opinions on what the state does, and how we've had to address from HP 2001, HP 2003, and so on.

So um, I don't have anything additional to add besides what's been shared by this council and by staff over the years.

Okay, thank you.

Um for those in person who wish to speak, please submit a yellow comment card.

I have two of them found on the table side of chambers.

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If you would like the city to follow up with you, please submit your contact information to OCR at Milwaukee, Oregon.gov.

As council has other business items on the agenda this evening, speakers will be limited to three minutes each.

Because information provided during community comments may be new.

This is not the time for discussion.

The city manager will respond at the next meeting to comments that require follow-up.

And with that, I would uh invite Chris Scott to please come forward.

So when you sit at the microphone, uh button, perfect, you got it.

Uh it's generally people sit, but if you would rather stand, you're welcome to stand.

Um stand, Mr.

Scott, if you can make sure that you're close to the banking of the mic.

Um, I guess well, what it is is my question's about the three percent uh increase on my water bill for processing fees, why it says it's there, and then it reads on to avoid these charges.

Please visit this page, and then you for other alternatives, which there are other alternatives, but there's only one that I'm aware of that doesn't deem me the three percent for making a purchase with my card.

Um, and that's the direct payment to my account, which I'm not in a position where I can do.

So that means I either got a mail and a check, which is really kind of phasing out in today's world, which okay, that's an option.

And then fortunately, I do usually come down and pay cash, but leaning towards a digital world, I just don't understand what's changed in your processing because nothing's changed for me.

I pay my bill the same, with their cash in my card, nothing's changed on my end.

So there's had to been some internal change on your end to constitute this three percent for the processing fee.

So, what's the definition of the processing?

Who's doing it or what's doing the processing to constitute the three percent charge for because the way I'm receiving this is this is a big shove to get just going straight to my account because my I don't have any other option other than that or pay cash and I might check.

So I just don't understand the purpose of this three percent.

It's like I'm almost being penalized if I don't comply to either pay check or cash, and I don't understand why that is when we're phasing into a digital world, and there's I'm being told that all currency is going to be digital at some time.

So at some point in time, either have to have me be linked paid into my banking account, or I don't pay your bill, and I don't have any other options but to get my water from you guys.

So I guess my question is why is it why is it a financial burden on my behalf just to make a payment to you?

Um so as I said in our script, we um typically don't answer.

Um back next week or so you might have an answer.

Yeah, that's and we got a letter.

I mean, I I also received a letter from somebody about this, and so I have shared that with this acting city manager and with our finance director.

So I think they will be um prepared to address that at the next meeting.

I mean, I will just briefly say it was about covering the credit card fees and having not the city to pay the credit card fees.

Yeah, I understand it's a banking thing, and that's a whole other uh issue altogether.

So I hope we can make it as painless as possible, and so we will definitely count on the acting city manager to address that in two weeks.

Thank you.

Uh Lisa McKelly Sprague.

Five years, I live in the Linwood NDA uh area.

I just came to watch today, but I decided I'd say something since there seemed time.

Um thank you for everything you do, and um I am here to just um try to keep the topic of affordable housing balanced.

Um I'm concerned in our Linwood area.

There's a number of projects.

There's a huge one on Monroe that's in the Pacamas rural area, I believe.

Um, but there's two being developed about a block from my house on either side of Lynnwood Elementary School that are hoping to be developed.

Um 45 unit townhouse, the north of Covenant Church, and the St.

Paul's church with 28 clusters.

I'm just hoping that our the city can um you know take into account um some of the other goals we've had, keeping parks, um community hubs, coffee shop for the those of us neighbors who have been looking forward to those things for quite a few years.

Um I totally get the housing is needed.

Um I'm worried about the density, 73 new units within two blocks on either side of two elementary schools, um with no other services around except the 7 Eleven, a marijuana store, a bottle drop, and a uh gas station.

So and a pizza place.

So I'm kind of feeling that neighborhood is a little depressed anyway.

We were looking forward to um yeah, the the community hub idea.

And um, so just in the push for affordable housing, I just don't want to get those of us who are already here lost, and some of our hopes for Milwaukee and the neighborhood.

Um I also am hearing about the MIRL, which I believe the 45 unit townhouses is hoping to be.

I'm worried about that risk to us as taxpayers, just feels without state income tax.

The um property tax is an easy way to just keep putting money and my property tax is pretty high already, and it just I'm not looking forward to it going higher and higher.

So thank you all for listening and just taking that into any any account in your future decision making and uh any other direction you have for me, who I should be talking to, planning department, um anybody else that I can just yeah, keep a balance and my ideas connected.

I'd appreciate so thank you all so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um, do we have anybody online, Mr.

Stoffer?

We did not have a Zoom audience tonight.

Okay, so that's all of my public comment.

Oh, are we uh um okay?

Um well, if that's that, we will close uh the public comment part of the evening and move to our consent agenda.

Tonight's consent agenda includes minutes of the city council November 4th, 2025 work session, November 4th, 2025 regular session, November 13th, 2025 special session, November 18th, 2025 work session, November 18th, 2025 regular session, a resolution establishing the 2026 City Council meeting schedule, a resolution designating the 2026 newspapers of record, a resolution removing Stefan Lashbrook and appointing Philip Stos to the public safety advisory committee as the Llewellyn Neighborhood District Association rep.

A resolution authorizing a contract with PACE Inc.

and a Mario Design LLC for on-call surveying services.

And approval of an Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission application for 1847 park 1915 Southeast Scotland Street.

Does any member, does any council member wish to remove a consent agenda item?

If not, we will entertain a motion.

Second.

It's been moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda as presented.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed say no.

Done heard.

The consent agenda is uh passed unanimously.

Congratulations, Philip.

You didn't have to come all the way down for that, but thanks for yeah, thanks.

Okay, so our main item of business tonight the naming and memorial policies adoption.

Um for that we have our equity and inclusion coordinator Gabriela Sandoyo Gutierrez and Parks and Greenspace Development Manager Adam War.

Okay.

Thank you for the introduction, Mayor Beatty, and good evening, City Council.

Um, and happy new year.

Um so Adam and I have planned tonight to provide an update and adoption of our city's naming policies for the overview for tonight.

We'll give a recap of the development process that covers the people who were involved and a cumulative timeline for us.

Also provide a high-level overview of the naming policy and memorial and donation policy.

And then for most of our time tonight, and I would add the most exciting part of tonight, is that we'll share our engagement results and how they inform those updated changes into the policies.

Then we'll end with more discussion, adoption, and resolution, and of course, feel free to ask questions along the way.

Okay.

With that, I'm gonna transition over to Adam.

Okay, so just taking a step back and talking about where we've been over the last year.

Um, we have uh set the purpose of this process to establish a systematic and consistent approach to naming maker assets.

Um, these are our assets that the city owns.

Um, there is currently a policy that applies to the city parks, as we are members now in CPRT.

Um city did not have its own policy with the exception of what had been adopted back in 2000.

So we felt that we needed to update our policy and uh really um provide the city with something up to date for that.

So Gabriella and I were asked by the city manager to uh work with the community group that was made up of representatives from the Equity Theory Committee and the Parks and Rec Board, uh the full board and committee to also weigh in on these policies along the way, along with some community engagement that we'll share with you.

Um we also have review from our Clifford and Natural Resources Manager, our library director, city reporter, public works director, were all involved in this policy.

Um, but I really just want to give a shout out to those four community members who met with us uh at least monthly for a year while putting this together.

This policy is based on what we consider to be best practices from the region.

We looked at six different policies for different municipalities and in CPRD, and we chose to pull um significantly from both in CPRD and the city of Portland's policy to put this one together.

All right, and I think here's the easier visual that tells that timeline a little bit better, um, but also doesn't cover all the cumulative work for months and sometimes I would add we met twice a month.

But just to recap, starting in February last year, quarter one, we had early thoughtful conversations, and as Adam already shared, conducted thorough research, and that helped us early in that quarter one to find our scope and definitions.

Then in quarter two, we pulled, and again, mainly from NCPRD and City of Portland's policy to draft all procedures and responsibilities.

And we had early discussion that we made a separate policy for donations.

And that's where in quarter three, we had full drafts of our naming and memorial and donation policies.

And this is the phase where we then talk to ESC and PARB, and then that helped us create a revised draft that we presented to you all at our October 7th regular session update.

And with that, on the October 7th, we left with additional revisions, and we're directed to launch that public outreach.

And that brings us to this quarter four with the results of the survey using engage Milwaukee and also recommendations after meeting with representatives from the Grand Bond.

And before we get into that, I'm super excited.

We're gonna dive into like the high-level overview of those policies, just recap and refresh your memories because it's been a little bit.

So tonight we're going to start with the shorter of the two policies.

This is our memorial and donation policy.

This policy is almost verbatim, the same as N CPRDs, which already applies to our parks.

Excuse that.

Okay, RV applies to all of our parks.

Um, and we felt that we needed a new one to fill in the gaps and to make sure that we had a policy that represented our values.

Um the uh contributions need not be financial when considering a donation.

So in-kind donations, uh, volunteer hours can also be recognized here.

Um this would be a lower level of decision making because we are talking about uh a plaque next to an amenity or on an amenity, so perhaps someone donates the money for a bench or for a tree, or maybe donates um something physical, and we we add a plaque to it.

So the decision making would be up to the city manager or the disignity.

Um it's important to know we're not naming the bench or the tree or whatever after that person, we are just recognizing it with a plaque uh near that donation.

Um this is a limited term, as is in CPRD's design to be a 20-year plaque that gives us the some flexibility to make sure that we're not gonna track these things uh forever.

Uh, if you talk to the N CPRD staff, they'll share with you a very, very, very long spreadsheet of all the different plaques that they have in all of their parks.

And so uh when we ask them for feedback, they said, hey, um, if you're going to do this, make sure you have a time on an audit.

Um, and then the one thing that our own policy does that NCPRD doesn't because we wanted to set some standards.

Uh, one of the changes that we made to the policy is we increased the maximum size of the plaque, we increase that to 8 by 11.

Um, other than that, the only change since we were here before you before uh was to clarify that if somebody is going to make a donation on something in the right-of-way, then our right-of-way permit would supersede uh this this policy.

So you have to get a right-away permit first, right?

We have to make sure it's safe to put a bench net right away or a tree in that right away, what have you, and then we can talk about adding the plaque to it.

Uh, other than that, the policy is virtually unchanged.

Okay.

Then to dive into the main Milwaukee naming policy.

Um, I thought it'd also be easier to just visually tell a little bit of the steps in the process, starting with a public notification, solicitation, and preparation for public um submissions that are open for 45 days.

Um, then we start with the review and recommendation to staff, council, and then the staff review, um preparing those materials, then after staff review, city council review and final decision, and then communicating that decision to the public.

Sounds very simple in there.

As you can tell, it's five to six tapes document with more details.

I just wanted to recap that's a little bit of that process.

Um, and in it, I also wanted to pull out that we have five naming categories that include geographic and special features, indigenous or cultural, native flora and fauna, historic and outstanding individuals, and only individuals who are deceased will be considered.

And only individuals who are deceased will be considered.

And the donor may recommend a name to the subcommittee that meets at least one of the naming categories.

So if somebody was making such a significant donation and gave you a um, you know, their recommended name, you would still go through the public notification and solicitation of other okay.

So they don't have any uh I mean I I remember reading in the staff report that people didn't want to sell the name of our parks.

Um so but then they even still have to compete with other naming ideas of the yeah, that's so the policy states, and and this is a good question because the policy is a little bit unclear there, it can be a little bit more explicit, and if we need an expert missions, we can, but you know, the policy states that um they will uh be allowed to suggest a name, but then that we will follow those same sales steps.

Um there's no guarantee that the subcommittee would choose that name and make it a recommendation to council, and then there's no guarantee that council will take on that name.

Um if folks are looking for a guarantee for a donation for recognition, the memorial donation policy allows for that.

And that's any donation.

Yeah, and just uh the connection too there is that the goal was not to sell necessarily naming rights as you had mentioned with the parks and useful.

Um so yeah.

Yeah, and I think that feedback not only comes from the four folks that we worked with over the past year, but the full equity steering committee, the full parks and rec board, and we can dive into the um dive into the reads of the community engagement.

You also saw that in the community engagement.

Um that people were looking for us not to uh sell the names.

So talking about community engagement, uh we had a survey available on uh engage Milwaukee for uh approximately a month, November 4th through December 1st.

Uh we had 82 people who completed the survey, 331 were uh aware of it so they sit in the survey and chose not to complete it.

Uh 65% of the 82 surveys felt satisfied with the proposed naming categories.

Um staff did have an opportunity to meet with tribal staff from the confederated tribes in the Grand Ron.

We thank our city recorder Scott for the introduction there.

Um so we have a really good uh informal discussion with their staff.

I should say that their staff has advised on policies uh throughout the region.

Um they have a great deal of experience with this, and they did provide a lot of really great feedback.

Um I think if we were doing things differently, we might have spoken with them earlier uh earlier.

Um, but the feedback that we received from the Grand Ron was to avoid situations where we are leaving it to the public to make a decision or council to make a decision when it's one name versus another, or a small group of names versus another.

Um this comes from experience that they saw in another municipality where the uh where an indigenous name came up uh against a another name, the name of a veteran.

And the resulting um public discourse uh over that naming right uh wound up being rather a difficult one.

And so the advice of the Grand ROM is to make sure that we don't wind up with a policy that winds up picking one name versus another to avoid any sort of one culture versus another sort of situation since our policy takes suggestions from the community at first and leaves it up to a subcommittee to make those decisions and recommendations that that's not something that we have to worry about.

Um more importantly, the Grand Ron did offer to gift us their experience uh should people make suggestions that we come up with a name that uh recognizes the indigenous community um if there is any translation or tofu services or any research that that they're able to provide, the Grand Rod offered uh those services to us.

Um also on the direction of council back in October, um, we specifically asked for community engagement about the impact of fundraising.

Um we'll get into the results of those questions a little bit deeper in further slides, but we wanted to make sure that we reached out uh individually to the NCPRD to the Friends of the Letting Library, the Letting Library Board, and then our local foundation.

So that includes the Library Foundation, Parks Foundation, Police Foundation, Rotary, and Elks.

Um, and they were all invited to take the survey, and also if they had excuse me, if they had comments if they wanted to share directly with staff, they could reach out to us and talk with us.

Um no one responded uh to us directly.

Um so we we we tried to do our homework on uh on that, and uh we're hopeful that that some of their uh some of their folks did participate in the community survey.

Yeah, I'm I was a little disappointed when I read that in your staff report.

I did talk to a couple of individuals that I you know encouraged to do to look at the policies, and I don't know if they actually submitted the surveys or not, but they did assure me they had looked at the policies and they were comfortable with them.

So thank you for that additional advocacy mayor beatting.

Sometimes it takes rounding them up, most of all we reached out and let them know the opportunity was available.

Um, and then I do want to add just about the engagement walking survey that um according to our community engagement coordinator Jason Wax said considering how dense our document and our survey was with materials that um I believe we had was 82 responses taking and completing the survey, that was pretty significant.

So yeah.

Okay, yeah, I agree.

I think that's pretty good.

And it was like you noted a fairly short time online as well.

So bringing it's pretty good.

Okay, I think we're ready to kind of dive into and transition to some of the engagement walkie results.

Um we pulled specific parts from the engagement survey and some of the images are there, the charts, but you should have all the default document into your package.

Um, and just to start us off with some of the renaming justifications, after request of VSC, they wanted us to add language that provides greater clarity for renaming justification to include a change of function, ownership or structure, B outdated or misalignment identity, and C cultural or ethical concerns.

And based on the community survey and image there, we see all three considerations were uh voted pretty pretty split evenly.

Um, and um were asked to select if none or all that should have applied for renaming was the question.

Um so with that when the committee discussed, they decided to add all three.

Then for the second change on the slide, we have um a recommendation around future naming subcommittees.

So council directors staff to add also representation or representative representatives from the library board, in addition to the equity steering committee and our parks and recreation board um to serve on the subcommittee, and they also um in the subcommittee agreed and asked that at least one or two members be added to the subcommittee to just increase uh requirements quorum and to meet quorum and to aspire to screwed discussion.

So I think we were at minimum quorum with it being three, but if additional members are interested, it can't be more.

Okay.

And just to add on to that, we would still have just one naming subcommittee.

We wouldn't recreate that over and over again.

Um, so we could take that direction.

The only change is that we felt that that just three people would be too difficult to hit for them and wouldn't have allow for enough diversity in ideas in the committee.

So one or two, a minimum of three once reach for.

Okay, so um there weren't a whole lot of slam dunks in this community engagement, but we we've come to uh to two of them.

Uh the first one is um honorary street naming.

So this is something that the subcommittee talked about.

We said, hey, some some cities do this.

We asked you council, um, and then we asked the community, and the community was quite clear, yeah, we don't we don't need a uh honorary street naming policy.

Uh the subcommittee agreed, and so we we've struck in that from the policy.

Uh the impact on fundraising.

So I mean looking at fundraising, um, the community felt that there would only be moderate impacts to uh fundraising.

Um, the community felt that there would only be moderate impacts to uh fundraising, and as we we talked about earlier, the subcommittee, ESC and PAR felt that we needed to avoid situations where we were we were naming or selling naming rights, and so based on the feedback from the community, we left uh the policies the same in terms of its requirements for significant donations.

And then just to add to you, I think with the image in the chart we have there for the honorary street naming.

I feel like this is the most clearest uh result that we got from the uh um survey of like it's not important, at least not right now.

So this one that's the image that we have up there.

Okay, um, for naming after an outstanding individual, and I do believe this one is our last updated change based off the survey.

Um, so uh council directed staff um to extend the category to include people who've made impact at the global level as well.

I think in the language we just have stopping at national.

So the subcommittee agreed to add world history as well.

Then the council also directed staff to condense language of an outstanding individual by adopting the first bullet point that's here demonstrated in the green um in the graph as the green color where it states the person volunteered and gave extraordinary help or care to individuals, families, or groups or the support to the community, and then to remove the remainder of the bulletin points to reduce the text.

Um excuse me, and this included removing B the person who risked their life to save or protect others, and C the person demonstrated a commitment to equity, inclusion, and justice.

Um meanwhile, when we have the community survey demonstrated a mixed results that we see here on the screen, where the top three responses were so close together.

Um, and about 25% of them selected just none of the above.

So after discussion about the results for the subcommittee, they still felt it was important to have some kind of language that calls out special consideration for local history and those who have been historically marginalized.

So that's written within the policy in there as well.

So uh we have um just two bullet points left uh of this year-long process, and I guess the question is uh are we ready to adopt and present our resolution or council, do you have questions or feedback for for us?

So questions, comments.

Oh wow, okay.

So I appreciate it.

Two months I um yeah, I just wanted to say thank you.

This was a big job and a really important one.

So thank you for taking it on and bringing this back.

It's really it's exciting.

Yeah, I agree.

It was a big job, and it's and the city really has needed to have done for many years.

So it's great that you know take a little by little ones.

Um I still I mean, I get um don't want to sell naming rights, and we don't want to have corporate logos on our part.

I guess I do still worry that this disincentivizes some don't donations.

Um of the larger donations.

I mean, the the naming policy, I mean the the memorials policy, I think is solid, but in terms of the I guess I feel like it will make I mean that's part of why I would guess I was disappointed that more fundraisers than people who do fundraising didn't weigh in, but I guess I feel like there's a disincentive here.

But I mean I guess we'll find out, right?

We'll start with this, and if we if we run into that, we can revisit the policy.

And I would add to you with policy creation, this is never the end.

We'll definitely have a timeline of after we apply it, we'll really see what's working, not working, and then update the policy as needed in the future.

Yeah, counsel.

I just I think it actually levels the playing field because somebody's monetary value versus somebody's sweat equity, for example.

That's how you kind of level it out.

Is just good to give a bunch of money.

What about somebody who spent so much of their time?

So I do feel like it does level that or not.

But but yeah, let's wait to see if that becomes an issue or not.

Thank you for calling that up.

Other comments.

All right.

Well, if not, um how do we need okay?

I move to approve the resolution adopting policy and procedures for naming assets and facilities.

I second.

So we moved and seconded to approve the resolution adopting policy and procedures for naming assets and facilities.

All those in favor say aye.

Opposed say no.

None heard, it passes unanimously.

Thank you guys.

That was great.

Thank you, City Council.

So we will uh take these next steps.

We will put together a subcommittee of no more than six people.

And um, I believe it is still the direction uh that we've been working with over the past four years to work on providing uh definitive names for Bellman Bray and Belfort Parks.

Are those the only ones we need to the only two that I am aware of?

Um we've discussed over the last four years about renaming, but um there is a process for which the community can make suggestions to rename something, um, and which basically would be up to you uh mayor to decide to open those up.

Okay.

And the Scott Park is deed restricted.

Scott Park is deed restricted and the policy is explicit that while we don't want to get into situations where we're necessarily writing deed restrictions or purchase agreements um where we guarantee naming rights, we do want to honor the decisions in the past.

So unless um someone can come up with a good reason why that name shouldn't be Scott Partman and shouldn't honor retreating Hannah Scott, then it it should the deed restriction on Scott Park does state that if it's not you if the land is not used as a recreational space that it does need to go back to um the fares.

Yeah, um it doesn't condition that on keeping the name, it just conditions about it does.

It does keep it the name.

Okay, okay.

Um I will just flag um it's not ripe at this point, so it's not a thing for this first committee, but I do think at whatever point we um get rid of the dam and we have a new green space.

I will be interested in revisiting the Chromebird name.

Um I would not want to see that attached to uh anyway.

I uh um that's a discussion from the other day, but I just wanted to sort of as the council president likes to say, lay down a marker.

Um so uh okay.

Well thank you guys.

And um and that gets us to council reports, I believe.

All right, who wants to start getting a council report?

I mean, haven't had a lot of meetings over the holidays, but you know, you may have things to report on.

Mayor, I was just thinking that perhaps Emma's watching this meeting.

Uh she's a maniac.

I know you're out there.

And so um might suppose yeah exactly.

Uh maybe we should propose filibuster so that Joseph's first um acting city manager meeting goes longer than an hour.

Well, and for people out there in the community, we should say Emma is the mother of a new baby girl who was born early this morning.

Um Georgie, Georgina, Georgiana Georgina, um Georgie, um and mother and baby are doing well.

You could consider dedicating this meeting to is that what you're saying?

Well to Georgia.

Only only Emma's baby would wait until council Tuesday to be born.

It's true.

Emma was ever was ready for the case.

I would like to propose that we sub uh script the naming of the child to the naming.

Thanks for me.

Staff just have one uh item for council if there's no report.

Okay, okay.

We had a camp meeting.

Um yes, we actually first one of the new year.

I just kind of went over again the the parameters for our um community needs assessment that's gonna be happening this year.

Um trying to aim for at least getting a thousand uh participants for that.

Um we are also working.

I remember when I first got on CAD, we were discussing some sort of a stipend to be able to pay um people who attend the meetings since it is CAV is you know all about the war on poverty and a lot of the attendance bees are people from uh income restrained populations.

Um so we are we're able to find find out that we can't give a stipend, but we can uh pay for gas complexion.

We just have to have each member fill out like a vendor packet with the county, so it's gonna take some time, but it's good because at least now people that have to use their own vehicle to to do this volunteer work who are already spilling, um, can at least get their travel expenses covered.

Um, we are also looking at meeting with the Oregon Food Bank as well as the Clack and Service Center to kind of get an idea of where they're at, uh inventory-wise, um, kind of see what the need is, where they're where the need is, um, just so we can get a better idea where we sit considering all the stab benefits.

Um the interesting thing is statistically, uh in the state, just in those SNAP benefits were cut off, they were providing smaller meals, and the county told us that mentioned the ratio of the cost, and like this is how significant SNAP is for every one meal that the county provides from the state's money, that's nine meals that SNAP provides.

Like that's how significant SNAP is for every one meal the county will provide out of its own money, that's nine meals that Snap provides.

That's the equivalent of nine meals of Snap provide.

So that's that's that that's just how significant the SNAP SNAP money is.

Um, and yeah, we're hoping to get some more information on that and and then in turn uh be able to do some food drives um locally throughout the county.

So um that's what I got for reports.

I did want to talk about also I know we kind of boot this thing to hell with the tree code.

Um I guess maybe what I would like to find out is with that tree on Stanley, with the new changes we made, what that cost would have been to that developer.

Because on Stanley going north um towards Johnson Creek, there's two there's so there's a lot that has two properties or two uh houses being developed on it.

There is a massive tree um in front of one of the units.

I mean, this thing is massive, it's gotta be at least 30 feet tall.

Huge trunk.

Um, they hadn't done anything with it, so I was like, oh, I wonder if they're gonna keep this tree.

Because every time I drive by, they're building around it, but the branches it's like right in front of the house.

Uh, and found out that actually that tree is set for removal, and it is a massive tree.

And I know we just did just implemented the new rules.

So I'm curious to know a tree like that.

What the cost of the case?

I would say the new rules are coming next meeting, aren't they?

Well, not implementing, I mean that we we just discussed the new changing room.

So we haven't implemented it, so they're gonna go off of the old rules.

But I'm curious to know with the new implementation that we're gonna have, what that amount is, and if it's not significant, then maybe we should because we're we're gonna hit a crossroads, and we've talked about this too with our tree code and our excuse me with with development and our tree canopy before.

So either one thing's gonna have to get either we're gonna have to severely revise that goal is because as the case right now, we will not hit 40 percent tree can.

There's no way too too many trees are getting cut down.

Um so we're gonna have to people figure out what do we value.

Do we value more of our trees or do we value market read housing that really people can't afford, right?

So maybe there's a limit to how how how big of a tree you can cut down, period.

Maybe a 30-foot tree with a three-plus person radius uh trunk is too big to cut down.

And you know, instead of building those two units, which are each probably about 800 square feet, are gonna go for 450, which is gonna be 900,000 that the developers could make.

Maybe they build one house at 1600 square feet that goes for 500, 600, right?

So I just again I'm curious to know what that price tag would have been with the changes that we just made that haven't been implemented yet.

But even our residents have mentioned and emailed us about bigger trees.

Like we're not talking about 10 footers or 15 footers actually.

We're talking about trees that have been around for at least 100 years.

So what's the limit?

There's no limit to what the developer pay, and we have yet to see that.

What is our limit as to how many how big of a tree you can cut down?

Because I know we value that.

Um, I'm sure we value, and I'm sure we value trees and we value affordable housing, not just market rate albums.

I don't know what a lot of people that value that too much.

Um but again, we've been we've been talking about pushback.

We can talk to the constituents about how we can get around the states, you know, their overreach and zoning, and and maybe putting a limit on how big of a tree you can cut down is a way to get them to not build so much so fast, maybe think outside the box, or maybe even incentivize them to actually build smaller and cheaper since they can't build anything else on there.

We can talk to the constituents about how we can get around the states, you know, their overreach in the zoning, and maybe putting a limit on how big of a tree you can cut down is a way to get them to not build so much so fast, or maybe think outside the box, or maybe even incentivize them to actually build smaller and cheaper since they can't build anything else on there because talking to uh city manager um rental the other day, based on their design because they're building those two units, they couldn't change it because they would have to cut down two trees in the back.

But again, they're building two units to maximize the profit.

So there's a little bit of a talk award, but it also comes down to our value.

I understand the need for market rate, but I don't value it, especially when the majority of our can afford it.

But I do value our trees, we do value our canopy.

And if anybody is gonna cut a tree that size down to build housing, let it be a nonprofit who's gonna build housing that somebody can actually afford.

So there's my two.

I know we've gone through this tree code, but again, it's it's more of a new thing, and it's probably gonna have to go through a few refinements.

Um, because a lot of these issues, a lot of these crises that we're dealing with today are policy decisions.

Mayor, if I can just on council body, I'm happy to look into what the delta would be between a former tree code and uh soon to be adopted tree code.

It looks like it is on your next meeting to adopt, and you can add that to the conversation that occurs next time.

Um I will say it also sounds like a larger conversation between development goals and tree code goals or tree planting goals, um, so to speak.

And that's I think we've kind of been living in that tension for a couple years now, right?

We kind of want all the things, which is 40% tree canopy and lots of density and affordable housing, and those are starting to compete with each other to a certain degree.

So it's a there's uh I don't know if there's a perfect answer, but I think it's a definitely a good conversation values for this council states at any one time.

Well, and I frankly don't remember what we I mean.

I remember that we had the proposal was a um you know uh a bigger number for certain six trees.

I don't remember if we talked, I don't remember if we talked about um different rules for affordable and market rate.

But I mean that that does seem to me something might be that should be on the table, right?

I mean, we didn't in our affordable housing incentives.

We gave a lot of, I mean, you know, there's very little um green space left on some of those lots, and so we took away some of the potential for trees, but um uh, but certainly in terms of existing trees, it seems like we might be able to have different costs for market rate.

I mean that may be a place where we take value incentives.

I was getting weeds in the code, but you know, we should save that for another day.

Well, yeah, it's all in two weeks, so you'll get to get the weeds.

Um, I have a couple things.

Um is TriMet.

So you guys saw an email today about the TriMet um cuts that are proposed for Milwaukee.

Um they're kind of proposed for everywhere.

I'm not at all suggesting that Milwaukee is being disproportionately uh impacted, but everywhere is gonna be impacted.

But um didn't know whether Target's scheduled to come talk to us in March, beginning in March.

Um, but in terms of getting word out to residents and getting them getting there's some public meetings and there's some online surveys and things like that.

Um is there something we want to be doing?

Is there something we want to be asking staff to do?

Um etc.

I'm curious if that's a better question after the checking on the 14th or 15th trend.

Oh, the workshop.

Because that's gonna go over all the what all the cuts are and how that's gonna affect.

So maybe it's a better discussion up after that.

I I signed up for the 14th new one.

So yeah, yeah.

Um I think that might be a better, better time after that start.

I I guess I just worry that I think a lot of the public comment is gonna wind up at the end of the month.

So um, yeah.

I think the um spreading the word on engage or in different areas when we can is helpful.

Um in some ways trying to just such a bind after um rigging moral of the slash year and transportation funding.

I feel really bad for an agency to provide such an essential service.

Um, I was thinking, okay, what are some creative things that we could do to try and help trend that ridership or do different things?

So maybe we try and organize a group ride on the first farmers market where we go down the 32 line, take it into downtown, or maybe we try and use um so I'll have to downtown Portland and go shop off the line or I don't know what it is, but I'd love for us to maybe there's some community that we want to do to encourage people um to get to know the bus lines around them so we can focus on some of the positive outdoor transit um and hopefully prevent student room don't use the service account.

Um another topic I wanted to bring up, very crucial one is uh I think we need to bring back pizza once a month.

You know, we said when we disbanded it that uh uh we would commit to going in and eating dinner together once and we don't do it.

Um so uh I don't know.

I mean, obviously the pizza isn't across the street anymore, but it's just it's as deliverable.

It's not like staff would have to go get it, it could be delivered to us.

Um what do people think?

I love the idea.

And even if we put the pizza out there and we can all sit around, like if there's concerns about just being our pizza and other people's pizza, trying to think about different ways that we can do it.

Um I really have liked meals together.

Um I also think that the later we go, the harder it is to not have a full meal.

Um it's gonna be things can be hard to make a whole meal at that time.

Yeah, I mean, can we try like a file or something?

Well, my I I'm okay with this.

My only concern was just what survived up.

So I want to keep this simple.

And uh, you know, so if it devolves and do like, well, why are you going over there?

We'll just stop at new seats and so it's gonna be a blah blah blah blah blah.

And uh I don't like their uh I don't like taxes that won't go here.

I just don't want it to get too complicated.

Okay.

Yeah, it's just well and and Scott will remember that it did get pretty complicated at one point.

We were getting um from the old uh painted lady, we were getting sandwiches and stuff, and everybody had a different order, and everybody, you know, it it got very complicated.

That's why I feel like pizza is the animals.

Yeah, yeah.

Even though you know it would be nice in in theory, it would be great to like the business to different businesses around town.

I hear you on that, but there aren't too many that lend themselves to not having to be individual.

So that's the thing opens next door.

Oh well we'll process them.

I'm hearing a consensus to bring this back.

Is there interest in which evening of the month it is?

First meeting, third, first week, third week.

I don't know.

I guess we share your voice in that.

Just start we'll start okay.

Yeah, and then um the other thing I wanted to bring bring up, and I think this is probably just again laying a marker for people to think about is um but it's something I've been spaving a fair number of conversations about, which is um as I think I've given you in some of the reporting on the changes coming to the SHS program.

Um it looks like there's going to be a push, like there's going to be a push, and it looks like there's gonna be a push for Pultnomah County to get a higher part portion of the income than they currently get.

And that Washington County and Clackmost County may lose and um I fully expect some pushback on that from both of those counties.

Um it strikes me that it is hard for us to push back on that when we don't have a shelter in Blackness County.

Um and I've met with Brandy Johnson and I've talked with other mayors, and um yes, they're you know, the project turnkey site that they um county commissioner unfortunately didn't purchase when they had an opportunity, a great opportunity.

Uh they do rent 40 beds there, they do have free rooms there.

Um, but really, you know, Chief Berg told me, oh, our officers drive people into Portland because that's where the shelters are, you know.

Um so it's hard for me to like think about you know supporting Black House County and pushing back on uh reallocation of funds when we don't have shelter in Clackers County, and so I want to think about should we be calling for something more from Blackness County out of our SHS money.

So again, I don't expect to hash that through tonight, but I just wanted to put it out there as something for people to think about.

Um yes, Mr.

Stoffer had something for us.

Yep, just wanted to give council a quick opportunity a week from today.

We posted notice council will be doing a site visit to the clackness service center uh over in the uncorporated clack unincorporated clackness area and wanted to give council an opportunity while you're together to talk if you want to carp me, how you're gonna work that.

Uh, there might be two clackham service center sites involved in the tour, so just kind of keep that in mind.

You might be going from their main facility to a warehouse in the same area, but I'm not sure if it's lockable.

Uh and then you also have an executive session at 5 15 here.

So just wanted to give uh the floor to council in case you guys want to coordinate that.

If not, it's not terribly far away, but to council.

I mean, I'm happy to carpool, I'm happy to drive and give people rides, whatever I want to do.

I'll be down in Salem for lunch days, so I'll just want to be there at 5 30.

Okay.

5 15.

5 15.

I can't pull that off.

It's gotta be there at two o'clock.

Not earlier, I mean 1 40.

1 30.

I mean, we could be 1 30, just if you say, but yeah, yeah.

Want to just speed here.

Yeah, okay.

1 30.

And I will say our 5 15 meeting is executive session.

And just as a reminder, uh Chief Burdock gave us all binders, which I came across recently, and I'm like, oh yeah, I gotta read that binder.

So pull out some binders and yeah, we're probably supposed to return because they're exact executive session materials.

Yeah, yeah.

Um el good of the order.

All right, nothing else.

I will entertain a motion to adjourn, move to adjourn.

I second it's been moved and seconded to adjourn.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, unheard, we are adjourned.