Okay, so thank you for your patience.

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Um we'll get started in a minute.

Um we just need to make sure we're uh ready to go live.

Okay, good evening, everyone, and welcome to the October 14th meeting of the Tiger City Council.

And um I now call uh the meeting to order, and with that, uh City Co Recorder, Craig, would you please do roll call?

Yes, Councillor Helleck.

Here, Councillor Godusi.

Mayor appointee who wonderful pro tem mayor in the meantime, Wolf.

Wolf.

Councillor Rob Councillor Robins.

Here.

Councillor Schlack.

Here.

Councillor Shaw.

Here Thank you, City Recorder Craig.

And would everyone uh mute their mics and please stand and join me in um the Pledge of Allegiance Okay, Council and um Acting City Manager Trich, do we have any non-agenda items this evening?

Not at this time, thank you.

Okay, none here.

And now what you've all been waiting for, um uh it is now time for the mayor oath of office.

So I am uh thrilled um to have um our mayor appointee um e Kang Hu um uh complete his oath at this time, and I'd like to welcome the honorable judge Emily Oerdorford to come forward and swear in um I Kang Who as our mayor.

Perfect.

Nice to see you.

I state your name, do solemnly swear.

I E Ken Who do not solemnly swear.

That I will uphold and support the Constitution.

That I will uphold and support the Constitution.

And laws of the United States of America.

And the laws of the United States of America.

And the state of Oregon.

And the state of Oregon.

And the Charter and Ordinances of the City of Tiger.

And the Charter and the ordinances of the City of Tiger.

I will faithfully perform my duties to the best of my ability.

I will faithfully perform my duties to the best of my ability.

In the office of the mayor.

Congratulations, Mayor.

Thank you so much.

Oh, sure.

Did you want to say anything first?

Um, I will have a speech back there, so

All right, thank you everyone.

And before I start, I just want to acknowledge our elected representative, um, representative Suriki Smith for being here with for being here today.

Thank you so much, as well as uh um Wahi Sae from the Muslim Educational Trust and his uh colleagues, um, as well as uh Fontaine Chamber of CEO Megan DeSalvo and his uh her staff, as well as the um Alan Long and Van Lee from the Viennese Culture Alliance.

So thank you so much for your for coming today.

Um I just want to make a quick statement.

So uh good evening, everyone, council colleagues, city staff, neighbors, friends, and community partners.

Thank you for being here today.

I'm deeply honored to serve as Tiger's mayor.

I don't see this oath as a personal milestone, it's a shared commitment to work together, to lead with respect, and to keep Tiger moving forward.

When I went through the appointment process, I say something that still rings true tonight.

How we work is just as important as what we work on.

So as I start this role, I want to begin with three simple ideas.

Teamwork, respect, and steady progress.

First, teamwork.

Tiger succeeds when we pull together.

In our council managed form of government, the mayor's job is not to be the loud loudest voice voice in the room, it's to make sure that a diversity of voices is heard.

The council sets the direction, our staff brings their expertise, and our community helps shape what success looks like.

When everyone feels included, included and heard, we can have healthy debate and still move forward together.

Second, respect.

Every interaction on this dais in our neighborhoods and inside City Hall should reflect dignity, dignity and kindness.

Respect doesn't mean we avoid tough conversations.

We'll make our transportation system safer and more connected from Hall Boulevard to neighboring streets, from bike paths to sidewalks, safety for everyone, walking, rolling, biking, or driving will guide every decision.

Because even one serious crash is one too many.

And we will support a vibrant local economy, from small businesses downtown to new entrepreneurs across the city.

That means predictable processes, fewer barriers, and an open door for innovation.

To get all this done, let's hold hold on to four values.

Clarity, clear goals, and honest updates, accountability, owning both our progress and our setbacks.

Collaboration, working closely with our partners, and access, making sure everyone can participate in person, online, and in every language spoken in our community.

To our city staff, thank you.

You are the heartbeat of Tiger.

You make things work often quietly and without fanfare.

I'm grateful for your professionalism and your care.

To my council colleagues, I value each one of you.

We won't always agree, but we can always work with respect and share purpose.

And to our community, this is your city.

Show up, speak up and stay engaged.

Your idea and your live experiences make Tiger better.

Finally, as Tiger's first Asian American and openly gay mayor, I know this moment carries meaning.

So as we begin this next chapter, let's lead with steady hands, open doors, and forward motion.

If we do that, if we if we keep teamwork, respect, and purpose at the heart of everything, Tiger's best days are still a hand ahead.

Thank you for your trust and for your chance to serve.

Let's get to work together for Tiger.

Thank you.

All right.

Thank you so much for indulging me in that uh few minutes.

We are still ahead of our schedule.

So let's move on to public comment.

So uh if you want to um uh call in, the number is 503 966 4101, and those wishing to comment should call now to get into the queue.

Anyone present wanting to comment should sign up on the public comment form at the front of the room.

So does it not stay all right?

All right, so excuse me, I just got an updated schedule.

It says our city manager is supposed to provide her report first.

So our acting city manager Trish will give a brief report.

Great, thank you very much, and congratulations.

If I could have the slide up perfect.

Good evening, council.

This Thursday, October 16th, that's 1016 at 1016 a.m., there will be uh an earthquake drill, the great shakeout uh the city of Tiger will be joining millions of people around the world to do that earthquake drill this Thursday morning.

It's a reminder about disaster readiness and earthquake preparation in particular.

This drill is an opportunity for people to practice drop cover and hold on.

We invite everyone to participate if they're able, and do what you can to be prepared.

And where that's concerned, I'd like to let you know about uh an upcoming program at the Tiger Public Library called Be Two Weeks Ready, which starts next Tuesday.

This is being presented in partnership with Tiger's Community Emergency Response Team or CERT, and the program covers topics like food, water, shelter, sanitation, and first aid.

And participants will receive a workbook with hands-on activities to do at home.

There's still space to sign up so people can visit our library in person or online to learn more.

And finally, I want to recognize the work the city does to keep the community safe and provide a quick reminder about our planned new police and public works facility.

This proposed new facility is intended to help our first responders stay safe so they can help you.

A ballot measure to support this facility is expected to go to voters next May.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Counselor, any questions or comments?

I will move on.

Again to our public comments.

So there were no written comment received by Monday noon deadlines.

So in person, I have some few people sign up.

Oh thank you.

So the first person's uh Severin Hamilton.

Welcome.

You have two minutes.

Just want to uh say a sincere thank you.

Please turn your microphone on.

Thank you.

Very good.

Just want to extend a sincere thank you to all you council members and city officials, Chief McDonald, police force that he leads and serves.

As a resident of Tigerd and as a Christian pastor in this community, I am grateful for the offices that each of you hold.

The government is an office that God who created each one of us has ordained.

As smarter men than me have said, if all men were angels, we wouldn't need government.

But we aren't.

We are the broken, beautiful.

Fearful and wonderfully made by God.

Each of us uniquely made in God's image and likeness with incredible dignity and design.

And yet we're also broken by sin with a selfish inward bent and rebellion against the one true governor who rules and reigns over all.

I'm grateful to God for each of you on our city council and ask God's blessings, wisdom, and grace upon your leadership for our city, and God's blessing to you, Mayor Who.

Sincere congratulations.

No doubt this has been a difficult transition for all of you.

But I pray that you experience grace and strength for the task and responsibility before you.

So thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak.

Thank you so much.

Thanks, sir.

Next one we have is Danny.

Oh, well, Danny.

Yeah, if you will say your last name too, I hope you helpful.

Thank you.

And that one's on, but you can't.

Is it on?

Yeah.

Yep, yeah, two minutes.

It's uh Danny Ralda.

Uh good evening, Mayor Who.

Congratulations.

Um and the rest of the city council.

My name is Danny Ralda, and I am part of the St.

Anthony's housing justice team.

Uh, and we're here to present over 200 signatures from community members that we've collected in support of the proactive rental inspections program, which we've been advocating for for some time.

Um we gathered these signatures over the course of just two days.

Um, one day at the El Tigre Festival uh two weekends ago, which was a hit and really fun time.

And after our Sunday masses at St.

Anthony's Catholic Church this past Sunday, where people from all walks of life um said the same thing.

We need safe, healthy homes for everyone in Tiger so that they can stay in housing.

Um I don't know how you would prefer um if I give them to the city recorder or to you personally, um, these signatures.

Um but um uh a few other team members are here to share their experiences and some of the stories um from the people who signed this petition, um, including not just community members in general, right?

But tenants, landlords, as well as elected officials from all levels of government.

And so we are we are here to share those stories um and continue to advocate for for uh prioritizing of this uh proactive rental inspections program as you consider the future plans for your uh uh for your housing goals and achieving your housing goals in the city of Tiger.

Thank you.

Thank you, Danny.

You can hand it to our city recorder or city manager.

Thank you.

And next one is Dee D Hutchins.

Welcome.

Hi, thank you.

This one.

Yeah, both are on right now.

Hi, yes, thank you.

Thank you for having me.

Um, as Danny said, I am a member of the St.

Anthony Um Housing Justice team, and I was at LTA Graph Festival with the rest of the team talking to community members.

And one of the stories that I wanted to share with you super quickly was from an actually from an owner and a landlord who had an interesting perspective.

Um, she actually signed the petition and shared with me that she felt very strongly that that would be good for the community as a whole to have safe and um affordable and housing that we could all feel secure in following the laws, which of course is the most important part of what we've presented, um, is good for the community, for renters and for landlords and for owners.

So I just wanted to share that story with you.

Congratulations.

Thank you, T.

Next one is Maria.

Welcome.

I'll be translating.

Yeah, okay.

So that let's give them four minutes because there will be a translation.

Thank you.

All right, please go ahead.

Hi.

Hi, my name is Maria.

I am from Teen The Justed from Tiger.

Sure.

San Anthony.

I am here.

Um I want to share that this petition has also been signed by Congressman Angel Andrea Salinas.

And Jo platya para que nos appoyara afirmar la petition de la injusticia que stamus passando.

I spoke with her about the injustice to sign the petitions expressing support for the injustices that we are experiencing.

I told her my story about the negligence that I received as a tenant.

Joy my family.

And ella sent your sympathy asia nosotros.

And she demonstrated sympathy toward us.

And I stay and she supported us by filming signing this petition.

Donde muchos de nosotros suffremos negligencia por parte de los dueños de apartamentos.

On behalf of those who have also experienced negligence on behalf of landlords.

And ella puso attention in nuestra petition, and she paid attention.

She spent the time to read the petition and what it was about before signing.

And okay, she said, okay, you have my support.

And she gave us a big hug and congratulate us.

And this is todo lo que tengo que compartir.

And that's all I wanted to share, and thank you very much for your time and congratulations for your appointment.

Thank you.

Next one we have is Oscar Mays.

No, okay.

And uh next one will be Ad Burger.

Welcome Ed.

Good evening, Mayor.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council.

Um, we talked a little bit about the proactive rental inspection program, and I think my previous team members have kind of described the need for that.

As a practical matter, in order to get a proactive rental inspection program off the ground, there should be a rental registry.

And we have it whereby landlords, landowners would would sign up to a registry to where that could then be a database for the inspection program.

It's kind of a phase thing if you look at it, look at that in that regard.

There was a bill last session in the Oregon State Legislature that would have provided I I can't recall exactly which agency, but it would have provided the agency to begin formulating and discussing that.

That bill failed.

Having said that, we've been having discussions with the city for the last couple of years about the rental inspection program and about a uh a registry.

The last word we got was that well, the state's dealing with it.

We're not gonna get we're not gonna get involved until the state makes a decision.

Well, the state has made a decision.

And it's it's not going to go forward.

We have it on good authority that the state budget-wise and priority-wise, you simply can't handle the implementation of a rental registry.

So what we would like to do, we would like to possibly meet with each one of you at a point to discuss more thoroughly what we have in mind and to see if possibly a rental registry program could be implemented here in the city of Tiger.

I guess that's our plea.

And we'd just like to uh we'll be we're planning on possibly getting together, emailing each one of you, uh maybe setting up a time where we can meet, discuss what we have in mind and see if we could come to some consensus to finally kind of get the program off the ground at the city level.

And the rep the uh it was a state representative, Pam Marsh, who we we met with.

Sorry, oh no, you can finish our thought, please.

Just Pam Marsh was pretty firm that there's gonna be nothing happening at the state level for the foreseeable future, but if somebody could kind of at least get off the ground in terms of a rental registry at the local level, that would then feed into the possibility of then the proactive rental inspection program that could later be implemented.

But it it seems like it's a it's a real pre prerequisite to that rental inspection program.

Other team members have really talked about the value of it.

We could go on and on that.

We'll be very happy to uh to inform you all to to work with you going forward.

Any kind of assistance you may have in terms of getting possibly getting some data, getting some any of the arguments you need, data for the arguments that you may need in order to move things forward.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

And last one we have Donald Myers.

Welcome.

Thank you very much.

Congratulations, Mayor.

Thank you, City Council members.

My name's Donald Myers, previous owner of Newshoes Shoe Repair for 45 years in downtown Tiger, and I'm here for a little bit of parking concerns.

A colleague of mine just opened up a brand new business called the 72nd Shoe Repair on or excuse me, um, top shelf shoe repair on 72nd Street.

And um, we have a real serious problem with um turnaround parking there as the city doesn't choose to enforce uh the parking uh out front of our store as a bit as a business owner and and a concerned uh citizen uh uh in that situation.

I just wanted to bring that forward to you folks and hope that um we could possibly find an avenue for either enforcement and uh or maybe modification.

I was to understand also too that the city council, or should I say the city of Tiger is planning on a new program as far as rebuilding 72nd?

And um, I just wanted to say thank you for your time, but it is a big concern of ours as business owners in in Tiger in particular.

Thank you.

Thank you, Donald.

Anyone else who wants to speak by having sign up?

Come on.

Okay.

All right, so uh Mr.

Walt, do we have anybody uh in the queue for phone or video um testimony?

Mayor, there are no callers on the queue and no requests for a video comment.

All right, thank you so much.

And we will move on to community updates, and it will be first will be uh Tiger Police Department report, and um we will have uh police lieutenant fox to give the report.

Welcome, Lieutenant All right, are we on?

All right, Mayor, counsel.

Thank you for having me.

I appreciate it.

For those that don't know me, my name is Monty Fox.

I'm a lieutenant here with the police department.

I wanted to highlight a few things this month from the Tiger Police Department.

So this September, the intersection speed cameras, as you can see here that are back up and running, are up 228% at the intersection of 99 Hall and up 691 percent at the intersection of 99 and 72nd over September of last year.

So now that we have the cameras up and running and they're working the full month, we wanted to show how effective they're being and give an update from last month.

So could I have the next slide, please?

So the next thing I wanted to highlight is our family fund day.

So most of you were there, but the 2025 Family Fund Day went off without a hitch this year.

On the PD side, we welcomed over 1,500 community members and had a great time showing off our facility and equipment.

We had lots of great opportunities to speak about building a better Tiger than the upcoming bond.

So far this year, the PDE has almost 9,000 community engagement contacts, and we'll surpass the number of contacts we had in all of 2024 later this month.

We have several small coffee with a cop type events planned over the next three months that should put us well over last year's total community engagement numbers.

So I wanted to highlight that we're kind of getting over the milestone that crest in September where we're already surpassing the numbers from last year.

So I wanted to highlight those two real quickly for the police department from September.

And those are the only things I had for the dashboard, unless you have questions.

Thank you, Lieutenant Counselor.

Any questions or comments?

So we received a public comment last week about uh resident counselor about the safety and null.

Can you provide some um data on recent calls in that area?

Absolutely, Mayor.

Uh so I had our crime analyst pull the calls for service for at the Noll apartment complex from September 1st to October 14th today of this year.

Uh during that time we had 16 calls for service.

Two of them were self-initiated.

Um, two of them were canceled before we arrived on scene, which means we had 12 calls we actually responded to.

Of those, there was three calls that did relate to someone trying to get into the building or um being hanging around the building, the entrances of the building that were all cleared.

We had one crime report that was taken taken over the last month, um, and it wasn't related to someone trying to get into the building.

So so far this year we've had 54 calls for service, and they've they've been um predominantly welfare checks and residential type calls that we would see at other apartment complexes.

So the little bit I understand is the worry about people trying to get into the complex.

So as a police department, we just want to reiterate that the residents, just like any other apartment complex, uh have some responsibility for the safety of keeping their doors locked of the apartment complex, not letting in unauthorized visitors and calling us when they have uh questions, have problems there.

Thank you very much for that update.

Uh council Robbins, please.

Thank you, Mayor Who.

Uh, thank you for your report.

Um I was wondering, because we hear about things a lot and just driving up today uh passing public works.

I saw a large area of personal belongings, which I'm guessing are from some of our houseless residents.

Um and my understanding was we were going to see uh more strict enforcement of the time manner place restrictions.

And um I believe also there was a large collection of belongings in front of the library today, but um, from what I was told.

Um can you give us some insight onto what's happening with that?

Because that can't be within the regulations when I drove by at five to six.

I can tell you I know I'm not intimately involved in that project, but I know that um we do have employees of the police department that are working with the city manager that are trying to change some of the or not, excuse me, not city manager, the city attorney.

Apologize.

Um I guess the chief can speak.

Well, it used to be green when it was on, now it's red.

Uh uh congratulations, Mayor.

Uh Councilor Robbins, they when it comes to the uh piece on the the time, place, and manner.

Yes, we are um we're being uh more strict about the enforcement.

The challenge of some of the things that you've seen, like on the sidewalk, is that those aren't in violation if they allow ADA access, meaning there's enough room on the sidewalk for them to move.

However, we are working on some amendments to the code to see if some of those things will be able to be addressed uh more appropriately.

Can't speak to the the stuff in front of the library, didn't see it uh today, but I can tell you that the there is a growing amount of uh personal items that um is removed from the public works lawn each day and placed on the sidewalk uh right there on Hall Boulevard, and it is something that we're working to address not to be uncompassionate, but um maybe that's that I'm certain that's not the right word.

But um that just while we want to help people as much as we can, we also need accountability and to just leave your belongings there and expect public works or police officers to be public works employees or police officers to be to be moving those belongings, which it should not be their responsibility, and um I I would really encourage us to try to find a solution together and give you the tools that you need to um to prevent that because I I don't think most of us would just go leave big piles of stuff somewhere and um you know I'm sure their belongings that people want to have maintained, but if we can come up with some sort of storage for people, perhaps working with just compassion.

And um, you know, I'm sure there are belongings that people want to have maintained, but if we can come up with some sort of storage for people, perhaps working with just compassion.

I'm that I think that that should be part of the arrangement.

So anything I can do to help, I would appreciate it.

Sure, and we do have a variety of options that that we are considering as a part of uh the adjustments to the code, and you'll be hearing about some of those uh thoughts here in a few weeks.

Yes.

Thank you, Councillor Robbins.

And uh yeah, we do understand that there are legal constraints right now, and we are trying to address those fund policy point of view.

So thank you so much for your update.

You're welcome.

Uh up next, uh, providing updates, Tiger High School Envoy, and we have Becca Kosramvani.

Hello, congratulations, Mayor, and hello, council.

My name is Rebecca Costravani, and I'm going to be serving as one of the primary liaisons on behalf of ASB student leadership for this school year.

Um, I just want to continue and introduce myself because this is my first time getting an envoy report.

In addition to being associated student body vice president, I'm also a TTSC intercommune mentor.

Um, I apologize.

Am I can you hear me clearly?

Perfect.

It's a little choppy.

Yeah.

I apologize.

Um give them one moment.

I'm very sorry.

Can you hear me now?

We can hear you, but it's very choppy.

So um I apologize for that.

Um, let me walk one from a difference.

I I apologize.

All right.

So that that's go ahead.

I'm sorry.

Would you like me to go a little bit slower?

Did that help?

That's better, yeah.

Go slower.

This is better.

All right.

I'm going to give you a very brief but short summary about what is going on at Tigrad High School right now.

Currently, it is Hong Kong for our school.

And we are having a meet on and pop culture thing going on within the student body.

So with the ASB spirit committee, we have spirit weak things going on.

And in order to advertise that collectively for the student body, we have posted on the Tiger High School newsletter as well as on the Tiger High School social media.

In terms of false sports, which are completely underway, sports games for the week are neon out, which is a tradition for Tiger Homecoming Week.

Grounds body ball last night had their senior night.

And tomorrow, Wednesday, boys' soccer will have a game at Westland High School.

As well as tomorrow, girls' soccer will have a game against Westland here at Tiger High School.

And they also had a game today versus Western at home.

This Friday we will have our homecoming falling at home, and the Hong Kong Green will be setting off at 4:40 in the afternoon.

So I encourage all of you to show up to that if you are able.

And then the last thing that I wanted to mention was that our ASB student committees are working very diligently to celebrate the different grade levels.

And in the graduation coming up in the school year, I just wanted to mention that we successfully ordered our senior schools and senior traditions are continuing as usual.

Thank you very much for having me, and I apologize for a technical difficulties.

Oh, no worries, Becca and thank you for your report.

And I and uh couple counselor will be at your homecoming parade.

So looking forward to it.

Counselor, do you have any questions or comments for Becca?

I see none, so thank you very much.

All right, next we'll move on.

Thank you.

And we'll um move on to our um Council Liazon report from our fellow council members.

And um I send a note to all of you over the weekend.

Um I will invite you to talk about uh your experiences at uh League of Oregon City Conference if you want to say something about it.

So um who which end want to start?

Counselor Godusi, go ahead.

It's hard not to say yes when everyone's looking at me.

So first I'll talk about PREP, the Parks Rec Survisary Board.

Um we had an update on Bag and Park.

They talked about it being primarily a wetland park, and that change in nomenclature helps people get that idea before they arrive because if you're expecting a park like you know, Cook Park, and you go there and it's mostly Westland, you might be disappointed.

So that name change.

And then they were talking about making it more of a phased project rather than doing it all where phase one would be Shady Lane to Greenberg.

Uh phase two would incorporate some play structures and the phase three going to the southern paths and still coordinating with CWS because they're also having their projects as opposed to doing part of it and then having to redo it, just wait for them to do it all together at once.

They talked a lot about the recent projects that are um events that occurred.

LT Group was a successful event.

They talked about the uh family fund day, which was fantastic.

I primarily spent my time at the uh public work side, but I'm sure the police side was fun as well.

I'm trying to give Chief Bats a hard time, but he's not.

Um there will be an open house later this week to take public comments regarding the cinema site.

Uh so they are going to invite people over there in order to get more input from the community uh for the future of that site specifically.

Uh they've started a leash up campaign uh where their videos are going up soon in order to encourage a lot of our community members to leash up their dogs when they are in parks.

Uh and they are having a dog costume contest at Potso next Saturday, the 25th, not next Saturday, 25th.

Potso Dog Park.

Um and work is started on Universal Plaza to update the sightings to get it updated.

The hope is to get everything done before the treaty lighting.

Um, and that's one of the main reasons why the uh farmers market has moved.

I was trying to think of specifically where it's in front of public works.

Fantastic.

Thank you.

Uh in terms of the library, I would like to thank Councilor Shaw for attending in my stead and taking phenomenal notes.

Um looking at the interlibrary loan policy, it changed uh to five at a time, so they expect more policies as the work continues to be centralized.

Uh the WCCLS policy in place in July 2025.

So we're now bringing that policy in sequence with the WCCLS policy.

Uh they also looked at the freedom to read statement.

Uh last approved a couple of years ago.

They're cleaning a bunch of metadata metadata uh with the underpinnings of what the libraries do.

Umes was looking at the accomplishments over the last couple of years, which included the technology room that was created.

I know that a lot of us had an opportunity to go in there, uh re-cataloging various sections, including section 200, which is the religious, now looking at models for Oregon, United States, tree planting, etc.

Uh and those are the main ones in terms of did you want us to also talk about LOC at the same time, or then go back and talk about Yeah, just briefly.

The one of the big things that I did was I joined a seminar on artificial intelligence.

Obviously, I'm having a vested interest in that specifically and looking at what various communities around us are doing and looking at um some possible examples, and one of the big ones that I dug more into was actually the city of San Jose in California has an artificial intelligence policy with a city administrative uh policy manual.

So that's something with the uh city manager and the city IT that sort of put together.

Um although there was discussion with city council, it was because it was more of a how things are done within the city as opposed to over a policy.

The nuts and bolts of it ended up being done on that side, but I do think it warns discussion on the board side too.

Yeah, wonderful.

Thank you Councillor Schlock.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'd first like to say that I'm very excited for this year's dog costume contest.

I was a judge last year, and it was an absolute delight.

So highly encourage our community members to join that event, even if you don't have a dog.

Um since my last update, I only have uh attended one meeting as a council liaison, and that was a meeting earlier today of the Willamette River Water Coalition.

Um, one notable thing is that normally they meet over at public works, but we will now be meeting virtually most of the time from now on.

So I'm glad I got to chair one meeting in person at least.

Um today we um approved a resolution to establish regular board meeting dates for calendar year 2026.

We accepted a report in lieu of audit for fiscal year 2025 and financial statements for fiscal years 2024 and 2025, as well as received an update on the Willamette Basin reallocation project.

Uh, something I found interesting is that the net position of the Willamette River Water Coalition at the end of fiscal year 2024 was $7,418.

By comparison, the net position at the same time for the city of Tiger was 423,138,855.

So I felt the scale comparison of that was very interesting.

And the next meeting will be in February of 2026.

The only other update I have is not for a meeting I attended, but for one that's coming up.

The next meeting of the planning commission will be on November 3rd, and there will be a public hearing on the proposed annexation of River Terrace 2.0.

I mentioned this because I myself got a notice in the mail about it, which I found very, very exciting.

So if you're as excited about land annexations as I am, I highly recommend you come to this public hearing on November 3rd here at City Hall.

Be there or be square.

Regarding uh League of Oregon Cities, um, my highlight was it was a surprise highlight was a panel discussion on public right-of-ways with representatives from Hood River, Canby, ODOT and Comcast.

It was a discussion about partnerships between local governments and utilities.

Because if you start digging in the ground, you'll start encountering a whole bunch of different sort of owners of different aspects of things that are buried there.

So how do you really make that uh partnership productive and proactive and smooth?

And I thought that was a really well-executed um panel discussion.

That was my highlight.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Council President Wolf.

Thank you, Mayor Who.

Um, I will start with my meetings.

I want to thank Councilor Robins uh for covering me for the water consortium board.

Uh had a change in meeting date, and I had a uh prior standing board meeting, so I could not attend.

Um I did attend my first and last um meeting for the Washington County Coordinating Committee, which is um Washington County mayors and some of the Washington County uh representatives as well.

Just a couple highlights.

Mayor Who was appointed to the Region One Area Commission in Transportation.

Uh Sambo Kirkman was appointed as an alternate on the Metro Technical Advisory Committee.

And then a lot of time was spent to focus on uh the proposed uh TriMet budget cuts, which is targeting roughly 10%.

Um right now they're still in the process of um gathering input through surveys and feedback.

Um cuts will occur over the next couple years, and specifically in Tiger in January, there'll be an announcement of some changes to line 76, which is Hall and Greenberg.

Um so Tiger continues to advocate for TriMet as they view some of these scenarios, not only um where the masses are, but when there are few, but depend heavily on a particular uh place to be able to move about um the region that they give that greater weight and concern for those uh community members.

Um so that was my highlight.

Um the Westside Economic Alliance meets tomorrow in the Tiger Chamber Gap, which council president sits on, meets on Thursday.

Um for League of Oregon Cities.

I was at the beginning of this joyful uh ride that I'm having called a cold.

Uh so I did not attend Thursday and Friday, the couple of sessions that I attended.

One was on legacy leadership, um, and really how do you effectively connect with diverse opinions?

How do you um not engage in social media back and forth?

But how do you ensure that you're providing facts about key projects to your community?

Um, how you adopt formal governance policies, and then really council's role in governance and strategic vision and not the um execution of that.

Um, and then the other one, unlike uh uh Counselor Gedusi, I did AI kind of 101.

I won't say AI for dummies, but it was um really kind of the history of AI and then really uh talking about tools that you can use.

So if you want to do a presentation or do different things, here are the types of tools uh leveraging the AI skills to apply.

So I thought that was very um helpful, and that would be it for me.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council President.

Yeah, youth cost that we forget that you're not one of the talkers now with that.

Um, I we had a meeting for Tigrid Youth Advisory Council yesterday.

I was not able to attend, however, I talked about everything with our president and vice president um Chelsea and Kai.

And we have officially like lifted off, I guess, our clothing drive working with just compassion.

It will begin on October 20th, and it'll go until November 19th, um, where we will have a drop-in box at Tigerd High School and a drop-in box at St.

Anthony's Catholic Church.

Um then on Mondays and Wednesdays from 5 o'clock to 6:30, there will be a box at the Tigerd Public Library that'll be manned by people on the board, council, whatever thing.

Um then on Mondays and Wednesdays from 5 o'clock to 6:30, there will be a box at the Tiger Public Library that'll be manned by people on the board, council, whatever thing, um, to drop off things.

And we it's specifically what just compassion is looking for is a lot of winter supplies and a lot of men's clothing.

Um, so our list is we have men's clothing, shoes, socks, new underwear, coats, blankets, toiletry supplies, travel bags, like duffel bags and backpacks, children's toys and games, and like arts and craft supplies.

So that's our big thing right now.

We don't have a lot else going on because we're just waiting for all our new members to come in.

So yeah.

Thank you.

And we are working on the new members right now.

So, yeah, counselor Shaw.

Thank you.

And perhaps you can also email us that information.

That'd be terrific.

So we know the drop-off locations.

All you guys the poster.

Terrific things.

Thank you, mate.

Thank you.

Um, I also had the opportunity to attend the League of Oregon Cities.

Uh I attended a number of different uh workshops and committees that were very informative.

Probably the one I'd like to highlight was a civility and I would call constructive um confrontations and conversations.

We have found um across the state of Oregon and and likely in other states that there's a lot of um Viterile amongst our community, our residents, uh, and all uh facets of individuals who try to or attempt to interact with each other, and how do we bring that back to civility?

How do we ensure that we have constructive conversations that are based on shared goals and solutions, or at least have the conversation so we can understand where we each are coming from and what the needs of not only individuals but what our city are, and so that was very insightful.

Um, I also had the opportunity to attend the Washington County Community Development Policy Advisory Board.

And for those that don't know, that is the board that oversees the administration of federal funding by the Office of Community Development, again, Washington County, and we had the opportunity to review the home investment partnerships program and the proposed application updates, which is really meant to streamline and make it much more easier to uh complete the application.

So that was an exciting event, and I know there's going to be a ribbon cutting event coming up that uh councillor Wolf will be attending, so very excited about that.

Um, also, and I know I believe Council Robbins will mention this, but we attended the state of the city address the or state of the city um uh conference that was by the Tiger Chamber of Commerce, and I'm not gonna report on TTAC.

They'll be reporting tonight.

Unfortunately, I've not seen the presentation or the report, but look forward to hearing along with my fellow counselors uh their report this evening.

Thank you.

Thank you, Counselor Robins.

Thank you.

Um yeah, I think we're gonna overlap a little bit with some of our reports.

Um I did attend the water advisory board meeting just last week.

Um we have some very good solid work done on some recommendations that we're gonna bring to council at our annual meeting later on this month.

Um, also we have an a vacancy on the water advisory board that we're going to be advertising for.

I encourage anyone who lives in Tiger but not in the city, so outside of the um outside of the incorporated part of Tiger or Durham or King City to apply to be on the water advisory board.

The deadline will be December 1st for it to get your application in.

Um I did attend the water consortium meeting for Councilor Wolf, Council President Wolf, sorry.

Um very interesting, very different than any of the other meetings I've attended.

It was um a lot of people mostly online.

We did just they did, I just listened because I didn't want to butt in, but did some budgetary talks with um, I believe the FTEs will be coming down some and some money will be carried over to finish some projects.

They one thing that was interesting was they said they are going to have to put a pause on classroom visits for now to educate kids about water, um, but instead they will be updating the booklets that they hand out.

So, well, it is impacting those students who don't get visits.

It actually will benefit more students in general because they'll have updated handouts for everybody.

Um, they also talked about really amping up the communications that we've been doing, um, making videos, getting out uh written articles and radio spots in multiple languages, including Russian and Arabic, and then when they get some feedback or some questions, they can then provide those answers in translated form.

For the state of the city, we I think we all went to that.

I thought that was really interesting, so I just wanted to share a little, it was by put on by the Chamber of Commerce, so thank you for that.

Um I really enjoyed there were multiple uh presentations by various economists, and they were able to answer some of my questions because I didn't, you know, sometimes they give the data and you don't even know is that good or bad.

Like 55% of the people who come who work in Tiger come here from somewhere else.

And I thought, well, maybe that's a bad thing, but they said no, that's actually a good thing.

It means we have a diverse economy and we have enough jobs that people need to come in for that.

Um talked a lot about cost of living and how um a large percentage of the jobs that we have, seven out of ten top jobs right now don't pay enough to cover basic cost of living, and so a lot of people need some sort of help, whether it's government help or neighborhood help or free child care from family members.

And um another statistic that caught my eye was that we have a disproportionate amount of youth who are disconnected from both school and work and how we can get them reconnected, whether it's continuing their education.

These are kids between I think 16 and 24-year-olds, so that's like an upcoming project for me to research.

Um as far as the League of Oregon Cities conference.

Um I attended multiple sessions as well.

Um the most interesting one for me was one on permanent affordable housing and how to increase home ownership among people who uh who actually really need to uh qualify for affordable housing, you know, affordable housing.

Um it involves sometimes the city or county or whatever whatever the jurisdiction, but in our case it would be the city owning the land and then building affordable buildings that then people can buy through special funding.

There's multiple funding uh models that you can use, and then when they sell the property, it remains affordable, but they do get some equity because sometimes these loans are zero percent interest, and there's also a guaranteed increase of say three percent a year increase.

So you're not gonna triple your money, but if you stay in the home for a certain number of years and all of your payments are going towards principal, and then you have a little bit of equity increase.

Um it can really help yet that then the property gets sold to another person who also meets the requirements.

So I thought that was an interesting idea.

Thank you.

And uh for me, quickly, I attended a chart, community houseless assessment and response team, and um again there were safe parking updates, um, still in talk with two churches, so potentially moving out of city operation to those two to another church, and so we'll move out of city operation and move uh safe parking to those two churches.

And of course, uh there are there will be time place and manner changes coming later this month.

And for Townsender Advisory Commission, um they provide a uh quarter three strategic plan report car update.

And uh also uh as uh council mentioned, there will be a formal cinema redevelopment site, open house for public uh October 20th, between five to seven at the foremost cinema site.

Dinner will be provided.

And um yeah uh council president Wolf and I attended WCC yesterday, and she already provided a highlight, but I just want to emphasize to those uh who utilize public transit uh to provide their feedback to TriMed about the potential cutback.

Um in turn of LOC conference.

I attended many of the breakup sessions that you did.

And just one thing that really stood out stood up to me is the Oregon's uh sanctuary law.

It was passed decades ago with a strong bipartisan support.

And it has been amended a few times then.

The law's purpose is not to protect criminals, but to ensure that local enforcement focuses on local public safety, not on federal immigration enforcement.

It was designed to build trust between immigrant communities and police so people feel safe reporting crimes and seeking help.

So thank you very much, everybody, for your uh Via Son report, and let's move on to our next agenda item, which is Tiger Transportation Advisory Committee annual update.

Um we'll have principal transportation planner uh and TTAC members.

So um then there's a slide deck.

Welcome, Tiffany.

And I'll give a moment for the slides to come up.

Maybe.

The suspense.

Would anyone else from the TTAC like to join?

Tiffany and Chairman.

I see a lot of folks in the back.

Yeah, we've got um quite a few of us here today.

So at some point I'll have them all stand up for us.

But feel free if you want to come.

If you want to come to the front, you're welcome too.

But otherwise, you'll you're welcome to stand up or wave.

Um but we've got quite a few just cheering us on today.

And we have several online too.

Oh, and we have several online as well.

But my name is Tiffany Gurke.

I'm the principal transportation planner for the city of Tiger.

I'm also the uh the staff liaison for the TAC, the Transportation Advisory Committee, and I am here with the chair today, so you can welcome yourself.

Yeah, so I'm Michael Hendrickson.

I'm the chair of the Tiger Transportation Advisory Committee, and have been for the past couple years, I think.

Absolutely, yeah.

All right, and um I am here tonight to give you an update of what we've been doing over the past year as well as what we're um looking forward to in 2026.

So we can go to the next slide, please.

Oh, okay.

Oh, and um I believe that you all received a little handout, and um it doesn't include every T TAC member.

So those of you online and those of you in the room that don't have that same packet, that packet just um gives a little brief summary of um a few of the T TAC members about why they chose to be on T TAC, um where their passions kind of lie.

Um so hopefully uh in the future we can get you know one from everyone.

I I know that they wanted me to create one as well, and I did not.

I wanted to I wanted them to have the stage, but you know what, next time you'll have mine as well.

Um and I encourage you all to if you wanted to write a little write-up, you're welcome to as well.

But um, so the agenda today um we have uh what is the T TAC for those of you who are um on or not familiar with the committee.

I'll briefly go over that as well as 2025 and review what we're looking forward to in 2026 and then our discussion.

So next slide, please.

So um the uh T TAC, the Transportation Advisory Committee is one of 12 boards and committees.

Um we have 11 voting members.

Um and it's kind of unique that we have um in our bylaws, we have a requirement for representation from a P uh pedestrian advocate or a certain number of pedestrian advocates, bicycle advocates, transit users, and um the business community.

So uh that is a unique feature.

Um, and I think we uh represent across the board pretty well.

Um we also every month we have every first Wednesday of each month, we have hybrid meetings uh that are held at the library.

Um and that happens between 6 and 8.

We are out promptly at probably 7.50 because we are we're forced to, but no, I'm just joking, but kind of.

Um so yeah, yeah.

We we're but it means that we are timely with our meetings, we don't go over.

Um so we welcome anyone to come and listen in, the public or um any counselor at any time.

Um and the like I said, the committee accepts public comment and input, so um that's always welcome at any meeting or prior to any meeting.

All right, next slide, please.

Okay.

Um so mayor and city council, thanks for the opportunity for letting us um address you this evening.

Like I said, I'm Michael Hendrickson.

I'm the current um chair of the Tiger Transportation Advisory Committee.

And in front of you have all the members of the committee and all of us volunteered for this committee because we see issues and opportunities for improvement.

Um and things that are going well within Tigered.

Um and we hope that we can make um the transportation system better for all Tigered residents.

Um all have done great work this year by providing feedback to city staff hearing about um projects and providing feedback to them and also being involved to the committee.

And also I want to thank Councillor Shaw for attending the T TAC, um, being the council liaison and providing feedback and support at the council level.

And also to listed on here, I would like to thank David Fisher who worked for his work as vice chair.

And unfortunately, he had to move to Arizona.

But Barrett Johnson stepped up to fill the role.

And then one last thing, I'd like to congratulate a couple of our members, specifically Laura Crawford and Barrett Johnson both being proud parents of future T TAC members.

So next slide.

All right, and just some of the duties of the council.

So one of the things that the council does is they kind of ensure that the complete streets policy is implemented and continues to be moving forward.

Also, they're active in the capital project and program development.

Also in the transportation system plan implementation and any transportation safety issues.

They're regularly bringing to the meetings issues that they're experiencing, as well as their neighbors or friends, family are experiencing.

And the same with accessibility and mobility issues.

We have we have committee members that have family members that face some of these challenges, and the same with you know friends and family.

So they bring those concerns to us, and then we're able to discuss them and discuss strategies to address those issues.

Next slide.

Okay.

So we're gonna give you a year in review of what we've done.

So first of all, um the Safe Streets Action Plan.

We learned how the Safe Streets Action Plan will guide the actions to invest and improve in safety, improve safety on Tigered Streets for all users, and how we'll incorporate engineering, police, and others to help make this this decision.

And we hope to continue to have involvement with this plan.

Oh, and um you'll hear I guess I sorry.

Um and then the electrical and mobility curbside management.

Um we heard how Tiger is um is planning on incorporating electric mobility like cars, bikes, scooters in developing and denser neighborhoods.

And in addition to how to better um curbside management within the city.

Um, and you'll hear more about this later after we're done presenting.

Um, and then the state legisl legislative session.

Um we kept up to date on transportation issues at the state level, and members provided comments on how they affect Tigered.

So next slide.

All right, and I'm gonna talk about the motherlode film showing because I was present at that, and I think it was a great example of how our committee can better um partner with other uh committees or um organizations within our community.

So the mother load film showing was shown in the library, and it was a partnership between climate action Tigered and the TAC, and we showed the documentary Mother Load, which if you haven't watched it, it is about um really the cargo bike culture and how um how cargo bikes have really opened the door for people to transition from vehicles, especially mothers are able to then um go to the grocery store.

They're able to um travel with their um children in a very active way, especially with e-cargo bikes, because especially with children, it can make it very, very challenging with Hills.

Um so it's kind of just showing the freedom that uh e-go e-cargo bikes and access to e-cargo bikes has given a lot of families and mothers in particular.

It was um I I encourage everyone to, or anyone interested to uh watch that documentary.

Um, it included a lot of places in Portland.

Um yeah, I think everyone that participated really enjoyed it.

We had some popcorn, made sure the library was clean though, after or the um Burgess Room was clean when we left, but uh yeah, it was a fun night.

Hopefully, we have more opportunities for that type of partnership going forward.

Okay.

Um so also we had um a joint meeting this year with the Town Center Advisory Committee.

Um it was great to collaborate with them and see their viewpoints because there are a lot of overlapping projects specifically happening within the TIFF that um affects both transportation and development.

Um and then finally on the slide with the regional flexible funds allocation.

So the infrastructure um, while good in Tigered, it does get old and eventually needs to be repaired or replaced.

The North Dakota Project is one of these within Tiger, the North Dakota Bridge Project.

Um, and many of us submitted comments for the Metro Regional Flexible Funds allocation.

Um, in addition, our former vice chair David Fisher went to his neighbors to let them know about this project because he lived adjacent to this, and requested that they fill out a survey to show the importance of this project.

And through his efforts, this helped the city of Tigerd be a contender and ultimately be awarded these funds.

Next slide.

I just want to do a time check.

There's about five minutes left in this presentation.

Perfect.

I think we're right on point.

Um second is a critical um road in Tigerd that I would guess most citizens in Tigerd um and even those adjacent have used.

Um it has connections to businesses and housing within the Tigerd Triangle and um 217 and 99.

And this project has a lot of potential from pedestrian bike improvements, parks, trails, and improved traffic flow and safety.

Um we hope to continue to partner with the TCAC on this project.

Yeah.

And the summer T TAC TCAC, so the Town Center Advisory Commission, we actually combined forces this year, a great another great partnership for our August tour where we uh took three different modes between our two uh uh urban renewal districts, the downtown and the Tiger Triangle, and we were able to see um the different modes and the challenges that exist on those modes between the two.

Um and then we discussed some of the projects, the cinema site, uh we discussed 72nd, we discussed the EGO project, um, and uh yeah, and we also went and got to tour the REACH site, uh, the Dartmouth Crossing, which was very rewarding.

Next slide.

Okay, so um briefly uh looking forward to 2026.

Um we're looking to continue the 2040 um TSP implementation implementation.

That's kind of the North Star for the transportation within Tigered.

And like any document that will need updates, so we'll start working on those.

Um you've heard about the Safe Streets um action plan.

We're um working to implement that within the city of Tigerd.

Uh, as you I mentioned, we um hope to continue to partner with TCAC and other um uh committees within Tigered.

And then also too, um as you know, Southwest McDonald Street is a major is one of the major east-west connectors within Tigered, and it's long overdue for improvements, so we're excited to provide input on this project and the design.

And by the way, there's an open house tomorrow evening for this project.

Um I think it's five five to seven.

Yep, at the library at the library, and then also too, we'll continue the summer tour, and all of the city council is invited to join us to see the projects within Tiger first hand.

Next slide.

And like I mentioned, um, we'll continue to find ways to partner with other committees.

Um find ways to advocate for projects within Tigered, um, encouraging support for the project statewide, regionally, um, and also two, um, we want to consider um Sunday parkways to help people get out and enjoy the streets of Tigerd.

And lastly, um, we hope to improve sidewalk connectivity in Tigered, and this will allow kids to walk to school, make Tiger more inviting for residents to walk to the stores and parks.

And this is something I'm actually personally excited to help move forward.

Next slide.

And yeah, and with yeah, yeah, I have a conclusion here.

So um so thank you for this opportunity.

Um again, I want to thank the members of the T TEC and for all their work that they've done.

Um we're all members of TAC because we want to see Tiger to be a better place.

And thanks to Tiffany and the city staff, they do an excellent job helping us accomplish that goal.

Um lastly, I guess I want to have a call to action for city council and and the mayor.

So please continue to support um traffic improvements with it in Tiger.

Um the Tiger Transportation System supports all Tigered residents and those who come into Tigered, regardless of the mode of transportation.

And we all have our preferred modes of transportation, but put that aside and think what impact that has to on Tigered residents.

Continue to support safe routes to schools, but think beyond that and how we can add additional sidewalks in Tiger that will allow more people to walk to places like schools, parks, and stores.

And also to realize that Tigered and the surrounding areas have grown.

And sometimes roads need to be improved to accommodate this growth.

But at the same time, don't neglect bike riders and transit transit users and pedestrians.

Continue to support the safe systems approach.

This will help us identify needs and improvements within the city.

And finally, there's an element of enforcement.

We need to be we need to continue to support our police department to enforce the laws on the road.

Too often we see issues on the road, and I'm sure you hear about it often.

We see speeding on the roads, cars and cyclists alike running red lights, cars not stopping for the pedestrians and new devices such as unlicensed e-motorcycles riding on the by on the streets and unlicensed or grossly expired vehicle registrations driving or parked on the streets, which directly affects funding in Tigered.

And I know this is only a small list, there's probably many more.

But make a renewed focus to support enforcement and our police department.

And again, thank you for letting us come to this.

And I guess I would lastly encourage you to come to the summer tour and see what T TAC is about at minimum.

Thank you so much.

Thank you for the hard work and your advocacy.

I think a lot of us are cannot disagree with you on any of those, so thank you so much.

Counselor we have any brief comments or questions.

I see Counselor Schlag.

Please go first.

I just wanted to thank TAC and all the members who are here today for their advocacy over the year.

And I was able to participate in the TAC and TCAC joint tour and attend the joint meeting with Mayor Who and Councillor Shaw.

I was on the transit side of the tour, which was very informative to be on with Councillor Shaw.

And I'm looking forward to it next year.

Thank you.

Counselor Shaw.

Thank you, Councillor Schlack.

I was going to mention also thank you to staff and also the TTEC for their advocacy.

And it's uh it's been a joy to be liaison, and I too appreciated the partnership between TCAC and TTAC and having the different modes of transit between driving, taking transit, and those who rode e-bikes.

Um I think there was a couple of regular bikes as well to take a tour together and really discuss what uh the future of Tiger could look like, particularly in the Tiger Triangle.

So thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

All right, next uh we have the um resolution adopting Tiger Ego Transportation Plans, which is uh electric method and curb side management.

And we'll have Tiffany back again.

Yes, I am back.

And sorry for the little typo.

It I'm a planner, not planar.

Um again, Tiffany Gurkey, principal transportation planner for the um for the city of Tiger, and I am the city project manager for um the Tigered Electric Mobility and Curbside Management Plan, otherwise known as EGO strategic transportation plan.

And we can go to the next slide.

So we have a couple different goals within the city.

Um is uh carbon neutrality by 2035, um, and that was set by the Tiger Tigered Climate Action Report in 2022, and we also have a goal to be um walkable and um to promote multi-mode a multimodal environment.

Um so what this project does, it supports both of those goals.

It guides the city's approach to e-mobility, and that's any electric mobility that could be um electric vehicle ownership um as well as bikes and scooters.

And it also and and it also addresses curbside management strategies to help improve the environments to be more conducive to walkability and bikeability.

Um this was specifically really focused for the Tiger Triangle or our more denser areas like downtown.

Um and you can kind of see the project schedule there and where we're at currently, and we're at the the end, we're at the term or um uh that uh fall 2025, and hopefully um we'll have discussions about whether we'd like to move forward with resolution, but we can go to the next slide.

So who is involved?

And I know that this has come to you all in the past, but for those of you who were not present or not on council when this came before you in the past, there's stakeholder working group that was established, and there was three stakeholder working group meetings.

Also in the beginning, there was community interviews, also broader public engagement, including surveys and events.

There were events that were that were done and we participated in the summer of 2024.

And then most recently, I was out at three different events this past summer, tabling and getting community feedback on both barriers to electric mobility as well as what curbside management strategies would really help support more walking and biking and transit use around our downtown and tiger triangle.

And we also incorporated these strategies in the TAC and TCAC summer tour that I previously mentioned in the last presentation.

We can go to the next slide, please.

So this is kind of summary summarizing the community feedback.

So some of the barriers that were mentioned were, of course, the charging availability, the cost of electric vehicles.

Also, there was a lot of concerns about the implications of the both the production and disposal of a battery, and also some of the other environmental costs of even an electric vehicle.

And of course, there was some uncertainty about the technology from a lot of our community or from some of our community members.

But they do see electric mobility as a good option, a great option for a low-income, especially low-income residents, but it has to be purposeful infrastructure, even in the buildings themselves, as far as storage and even where to charge the electric bikes and electric scooters.

And like I had mentioned, the need for connectivity is very important, but there's as you'd mention, as we know, there's also some parking concerns.

So part of the process, we did an assessment of the existing conditions.

So there was kind of a mapped parking occupancy in the Tiger Triangle, where EV chargers exist, where the EV registrations are and then how that compares to the socially vulnerable areas, and then also summarize some of the electric mobility trends, especially in the region.

Next slide.

So some of the key outcomes is a curbside prioritization framework that we hope to incorporate into the transportation system plan, and then it can help us incorporate into future projects to give us some basic guidelines to follow in determining what the curbside prioritization would look like.

And then it also has policy recommendations in this in this plan, which has three tiers.

One is include in the transportation system plan, the other is explore further, and then the third is more growth-driven.

So as we continue to densify and grow, we'll start to tap into these strategies.

Next slide.

So the curbside prioritization framework really uses land use as its key driver to prioritization.

And this is your kind of the first step in prioritization.

This is not the last.

And again, what this plan calls for is for a version of the curb side prioritization framework to be incorporated into the transportation system plan.

So there's always opportunity for slight adjustment as we as we develop our updated transportation system plan over the course of 2026 through 2028.

My is my expectation for that process.

Next slide, please.

I had already mentioned those, so we can go to the next slide.

So a few of the strategies that we hope that we want to see in the TSP is of course adopt that curb side priorization framework so that we can have consistency among projects and so that we can have clear objectives with the curb.

And then also to establish a quick build program.

You actually see a image.

And I see this as a potential overlap between the safe the safe streets action plan and this a lot of times we can make modifications along the curb that could also enhance safety.

And then also another strategy would be the stream streamlined EV charging station permitting.

Another would be established time-based parking restrictions.

Again, this is something that would have to be looked in to further within the transportation system.

And then one thing that I do see is based on conversations with residents as a very near term potential strategy is the EV education for residents and businesses, and to perhaps work with our sustainability coordinator to have some sort of informational packet or a one-pager to give people clear understanding of the pros and cons of owning an electric vehicle.

Next slide.

Also e-cargo bike fleet, this would come at a you know substantial cost to the city, but I think it would be potentially a nice benefit so that our employees could use other modes to get to sites within a shorter distance.

And then pilot one again, this is explore further, but um as Toaleton has their Lime Scooter program, continue to monitor that success and consider if this is something viable for future Tiger.

Um and then I'll also allow curbside EV charging.

There's going to potentially be some um some complications or other things, so just exploring what the possibilities exist for curbside EV charging.

And then next slide, please.

And then growth-driven strategies.

So these are things that we're not currently at, but as we grow and you know, look towards issues that more urban environments like downtown Portland are facing.

Um we want to be prepared for those if we start to see those sort of densities.

One would be uh zero low emission delivery zones, so that um that type of program, if we don't see the parking utilization, that would really would really motivate that to be a driver to people switching to eelectric uh delivery vehicles.

I don't necessarily see it as something that would be as effective as it is in um very urban dents where parking is non-existent.

Um I think we all we know our challenges, um, but I think we all understand um certain parts of Portland or other uh urban environments where you're literally circling for hours and then you just give up and leave.

So that could be a real um again in that type of setting, having designated uh electric delivery zones can actually incentivize uh delivery drivers to switch to electric vehicles.

Um we're just not there, and the same with um that same principle goes with ride share regulations like having specific drop-off and pickup areas.

Um, next slide.

Um so the staff recommendation today is to adopt this electric mobility and curbside management plan or the ego plan.

Um uh the resolution I know is provided in the packet and um available to you, but I'm here to answer any questions if you have any.

Thank you, Tiffany.

Counselors, questions?

Counselor Shaw.

Um Shock, sorry.

Thank you, Mayor.

And uh these are two questions that I brought up with the acting city manager prior, so I just wanted to bring them up for for council discussion.

Um the two questions I had were first, um, what is the anticipated budget impact um to the city or TCDA by pursuing these policies moving forward, and then um how would approving if we approve this plan, how would that impact current transportation priorities for the city?

Because as we all know, there's only some there's only so much money to go around, there's only so much staffing resources and time.

So I want to make sure that um I just want to understand that impact.

Yeah, so um that's one of the reasons um as we face budget challenge, it's important that we don't overcommit within this plan.

And I think we did a nice balance by um the those strategies that really would amount to higher uh costs were in the explore further, um, because again, we want to have um we want to have strategies that are actually uh financially feasible, and um that means coming up with finance strategies, um, and that would be in the explore further category.

The um the items in the included in the TSP, those are all all pretty much um uh manageable within our current budget.

If we were to um well, and plus as we unwrap or unroll the TSP update, that's going to include further discussion on the strategies.

So none of these strategies will be implemented straight out the gate.

Um they'll be included in another plan or explored further as we move forward.

So there is no budget implications.

Thank you.

Appreciate that clarification.

And speaking for myself, uh I think the ego transportation plan has a lot of great ideas.

I'm prepared to support the resolution.

I just um sort of agreeing increasingly, not increasingly concerned that makes it sound more than it is.

But um I'm pausing more when I look at some of the policy recommendations that are coming before the council, not because they aren't great ideas, but I want to make sure to your point that the council is not overcommitting staff and overcommitting to the community on a lot of great ideas and then under delivering.

Um so that's why I want to make sure that we are reflecting or reviewing and reflecting upon the budgetary impacts, even if they're years out, and also the staffing implications as well.

I think when we had a review of the housing policy that or housing plan, housing policy a couple of weeks ago, that sort of topic came up as well.

Um but as far as the intentions behind this plan, I don't have any issue supporting it tonight.

Right, thank you.

Thank you, Councillor Shaw.

Great, thank you so much, and thank you.

Um I want to make sure I get the time to my principal transportation planner gherky.

And my eyes are that good.

So thank you very much.

Thank you.

Um I think it's premature.

The reason is we have a climate action report, we have 121 actions that we haven't even reviewed or dealt with what we've reviewed, but we haven't prioritized those.

We also next have a parking management update, and so that could factor into this as well, as well as our TSP plan and recognizing there isn't a budget implementation impact.

There are interconnections here, and I believe council has workshops specifically for this purpose, so we could workshop exactly how would the um ego transportation plan interconnect with a climate plan uh with our current transportation priorities and our current safe street priorities.

I do think we could potentially become over-leveraged, and I really would like to see us finish our gaps in our streets, particularly hall.

There's a huge gap still there, and we haven't addressed it.

Um in addition, I think site safe routes to schools should be continued to be that priority.

And I think this is a very important the ego resolution could feed into that, but I just feel for the council it would be best if we took a step back, looked at all the priorities that are potentially interconnected in a workshop, and then move forward with the resolution.

So at this time, Mayor, I'm I'm just not prepared to support the resolution for those reasons.

But appreciate the hard work.

Yeah, no problem.

Counselor Shaw, would it help if I remind everybody this is only for the tiger triangle area, right?

Yeah, this is this is the focus, yeah.

So uh um counselor Robin, do you have anything to say?

Please go ahead.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um I I have some questions.

This is this is very complex, very detailed, and I appreciate all the hard work.

Um I appreciated the slides showing um the potential kind of modifications or painting of some of the streets, kind of extending that crosswalk out so that you know, I just watched a video about this where you have a truck pulling up to say deliver, and so then somebody driving doesn't see a child until they just run right out.

And you know, and so if you paint those areas, so you know, no parking there.

I think that that kind of stuff that you highlighted um really made a lot of sense.

Um I have some questions, though.

When I'm looking through the policies, like on page 32, one of the policies that that we're saying we're going to pursue, I believe that's it's not it's in table figure six or table six, set up parking regulation and consider expanding Tiger's downtown parking pilot program.

The last time we met, we voted that we weren't gonna pursue that anymore.

Am I remembering that correctly?

So I'm not prepared to approve something that says that we're gonna we're gonna expand that when we we voted recently that it doesn't seem like it needs to be done right now.

So um, you know, I have some questions on a few of these, not saying it's bad, but I would like to have some time to really digest it and perhaps ask more questions and see if things and um deeper in the plan, I think it's probably in the appendix.

It talks about um kind of a tiered approach where you monitor the um the parking usage and you look at the thresholds of usage, and then when those when it meets those thresholds consistently, that's when you go to a um more intense, I guess, um parking management strategy.

Um I I understand I understand that, and I do see that the other two are regular parking studies and established time restrictions with signage.

But if we approve this, then the public's going to look at this, and they're not gonna go to the appendix.

That I I appreciate how detailed that is, but they're not gonna look at that.

They're gonna look at this and say, well, this policy says this.

Why isn't it being done?

You do you see how that can create some confusion?

So maybe we need to like look at some of those and and just make sure everything meshes, and like counselor Shaw said, make sure all the priorities mesh.

Um of these priorities also seem like they would cost a lot of money, and we just had to do budget cuts.

So one of the ones that again I believe was in current policy current policy not thinking about was to accelerate the electrification of the city's fleet, which is a great idea, but we all had to make a cut this year in the budget.

So committing to doing that does feel contradictory right now.

Um my last question, because there are so many questions and so many cool, there's great ideas, and so I I don't want to take up too much more time.

But my last thing is with the the e-micro built mobility, are those electric assist bikes where you pedal and it's easier to pedal, or are they the electric bikes?

Well, um we have only three um classes of bikes that are categorized as e-bikes in the Oregon statute.

Um one is uh fully electric, but it maxes out, I think at 20 miles per hour.

There are different um categories, and they have some are e-assist and some with and so that's what we refer to when we're um refer to e-bikes, or what is um in statute.

So the so the fully electric ones where I don't have to pedal if I don't need to, not the electric assist bikes where you pedal and it makes it easier.

Both, but they have they cap out on speed.

Okay, so which ones are at the apartment buildings?

Oh, the uh the power to the pedal bikes, that's e-assist.

Okay, okay.

Because I have concerns as a healthcare provider and as a parent about the safety of the fully electric bikes, regardless that 28 miles per hour.

We had a child die last year using one of those bikes.

Um I worry about the liability of the city if we were to let somebody use one of those bikes and um just one last thing because I'm talking way too much.

I would love to maybe talk at some point about how that program is going.

Um are all the bikes still there, people using them, are they being well maintained?

I'd love to hear more about that.

Yeah, absolutely.

Thank you.

Council President Wolf.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um Tiffany, thank you.

And I guess just listening to both Councillor Shaw and Councillor Robbins.

My only question is so what happens if this doesn't go forward tonight?

What's the impact of that to kind of hit the pause button and try to bring it all together?

Is a requirement for the TGM grant is an adoption adoption of products to meet objectives.

However, um I did talk to the O dot PM that um is within any TGM grant, um, it does have an O dot PM, and I discussed this with him.

I mean, we don't have we can't force anyone to adopt a plan.

So we have adopted ready product.

Um, and what I see this is no matter what, it can help us uh it can help us to um guide, I'm not saying it's a requirement, but it can help um it can still help in the TSP update process to be a reference and that we can look to because this was a lot of work done.

Um so it can still be that reference document, but it it just won't have as many much um requirement since it won't be adopted, it won't be a you must put that in.

So is there um a timeline?

Um and I know Councillor Shaw, I mean the points were well made, but is there um a way that we could collaborate, try to modify or come back and still hit that mark?

Um what kind of timeline, Tiffany, are you working on?

You're um I see this as you're welcome to do that.

Um, but again, there's there is absolutely they can't force anyone to adopt either.

So I I don't know, would you like to expand on that, Sambo?

Sure.

Um again, this was supposed to be a companion document to our TSP.

So what I'm hearing from council is there's an interesting components of the program itself, and that what would be helpful is to come back through a workshop and maybe um you know uh bring uh draw out the actual um policies that you are more comfortable with and ones that we may want to put into it maybe a different bucket where it's a matter of further exploration.

There may be a shift of of policies and if we are getting that direction from council, we're we're happy to come back at a later time and bring those policies as a as a next step towards our work towards the TSP.

Because the the focus of this is to start, it was kind of the foundation of our abilities to take some components that we could utilize in our updates.

And again, parking is a good example where where there's there's opportunities for us to be able to um embed some of these key things we are hearing from the community as as issues and try to find ways that we can incorporate them both in the this plan and others that are more moving towards implementation.

So if if we can get direction from council, if you want us to come back, we're happy to provide you with kind of a more a summation of the policies and then and then figure out which ones are the council has interest in and in incorporating into our TSB.

Absolutely, we can do that.

So you guys, I I feel like I'm um uh beating the same thing here.

But um what I'm hearing is this is a potential or a component that would help us get grant funding and uh not necessarily grant funding.

Okay.

Um because we already were awarded this grant, it's just in the grant requirements.

Okay.

It just requires us to bring it forward for adoption.

Okay.

Um that is kind of the language that's in there.

Um, however, what this is going to act at, no matter what, but it just be stronger if it were adopted, but we will act similarly no matter what, as direction towards what will be included as a fact, a piece, not not all of it, but a piece of what will be included in the transportation system plan update.

Okay.

Because it just seems like then there's an opportunity to strengthen it.

So okay, you answer my questions.

Thank you.

Council Kodusi.

Thank you, Mayor Who.

Um Thank you for it.

It is very detailed.

Um for anyone that wants light reading, the appendix is almost 300 pages.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, so thanks for that.

Um one of my concerns is because it is so robust, there are a lot of recommendations, and although there ends up being sort of key things of it, just to say that we adopted this whole thing through one resolution ends up being very difficult, especially because there isn't from what I read any specific budget outlined in that.

Again, I tried to go through as much as I could, but if there is somewhere in there that did have sort of a layout, please tell me.

But I didn't see anything in terms of a possible budget for you in the tiger triangle aspect of it.

Okay.

Yeah, there was no budget outlined in it.

Um, but I I understand, and that's why a lot of the ones that would have required budget, I put in the I encourage us to put in the explore further category in order for us to not overly commit to something that we especially I mean, even in the course of the last year, we've um had um we've had different conversations around budget than we did, you know, previous year.

We've um had um we've had different conversations around budget than we did, you know, previous year.

So um as times are changing, we don't want to over overcommit, and that does mean explore further and not to even say put in the TSP.

Those those would cost money, and we're not prepared for that at this time.

Um I'm just gonna say um I like this plan.

I think it's very forward-looking.

It's equity, it has equity lens to it.

Yes.

And there's community input.

But I do share my fellow counselor's concern a little bit.

It's just on the surface, it looks very broad.

It's like all this good ideas.

But I totally understand that we're not committing to any staff time or resource at this point.

It's we're going to continue exploring all this option, right?

By the same time.

I think the concern is that we don't have a limited resource in terms of staff time and city money.

So, but I totally understand we're not committing to anything.

So I think there's a consensus right now.

Just we will learn at least maybe do one-on-one to learn more about where we're going, maybe focusing on one to five high input, but low cost activities that we can do immediately.

So that will make council feel a little bit more comfortable.

You know, all this is you know, we have this lofty go, but in the immediate future, this is what we are ready to commit, and this is how much resources we can you know expect to span on and how much staff time.

So I think that will make council feel a little bit more comfortable adopting this.

So does that go ahead.

Thank you, council, acting city manager Trich in an echoey microphone.

Um I think uh this feedback is very well received.

Thank you very much.

The the timing of this conversation, I think, is is excellent because in 2026 we begin our transportation system plan update, and this is a great entry point into some of those policy conversations that will naturally feed into that.

The transportation system plan is also an opportunity to have more complete engagement and have a deep conversation on on the policies that you've uh been talking about this evening, as well as in the context of all of the goals and the strategies of the organization.

So uh I would propose bringing this item back as a workshop either in January or February for continued conversation, and then our own principal transportation planner will be seamlessly folding that in in a transportation system plan update in the new year.

No, and I'm looking forward to that process and really um even starting now to envision what will be in that scope.

So it's really something that will help drive us further and help us be even more successful going forward.

Sounds good, counselor.

Wonderful.

That's a plan.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

So next uh on the agenda is parking management program update.

And we have our community development director, Kirkman.

Good evening, Mayor Who and Counselors.

Uh Sambo Kirkman, community development director, should probably have introduced myself earlier.

Um with me um as well as um redevelop manager uh fairly to provide council with a parking management update.

Next slide.

From the from the June update, the council provided the project team with the following direction.

Complete the data collection through September to ensure the analysis covered summer activities in the downtown and triangle areas, delay parking enforcement until further data warrants um warranted, and consider alternative options to parking enforcement.

Next slide.

Tonight, we will provide the council with a conclusion of our extensive parking data collection, our recommended actions to improve parking management, and confirm the council's direction for parking management.

Next slide.

As you many of you may know, we've been collecting uh 120 days worth of parking data, providing the council updates throughout the way.

The data collected is quite dense.

So the focus tonight will be on two key points.

The number of days where more than 85% of spaces were occupied, and the number of days in which vehicles overstayed the time limits.

Next slide.

So the first series of slides will show the total days of more than 85 occupants occupancy, a key percentage in determining when enforcement should be considered.

This bar graph is a bro is broken down in by areas in both the downtown and tiger triangle areas.

And the color coding is based on the months.

Next slide.

Okay.

This this line graph shows peak occupancy by location between April and August for five key areas.

The Atwell, next slide.

Next slide.

Main Street South.

Next slide.

Tiger Street Public Parking Lot.

Next slide.

Upper Burnham.

Next slide.

This collated graph shows the number of days in which the data shows occupancy exceeding 85%.

As you can see, next slide.

There are more days that have less than 85% occupancy.

So next slide.

From the recommendation of Councilor Stock for clearer visuals.

Thank you, by the way.

This one is an HDMI cable.

Yeah.

So we're wireless.

So the at what the highest number at 47% of the total days.

Other areas, including Main Street, were well below 30%.

Next slide.

The next series represents.

Oh.

Oh.

I'm partially having, I think.

Almost.

The data was so dense it just broke it broke the PowerPoint presentation.

For time's sake, should would you like me just to kind of describe the data that we've had?

Because the next series of slides were we're just show the overstays by month.

The key takeaway from the number of overstays are that they are consistent month by month.

Based on all the other updates we provided you, the overstays have been in basically three key areas.

I'm sorry, four key areas.

Main Street North, I'm sorry, not Main Street.

Main Street, South, Dartmouth, 72nd, and Ash Avenue.

So those are our three areas where overstay for reasons and again consistently the same amount of time.

I would be showing you another one identifying the same data in a table form.

But some other key takeaways from the data collected show that Fridays have more areas that exceed 85% occupancy, which was consistent for each month.

The average number of OJ stays for the whole month, the whole five-month period is 4.58 per day, with um 89% exceeding four hours.

And that's a key, that's a key number because that often tells us there are employee parking.

Or that's an assumption that we a um calcul uh uh a an assumption we've made.

Um and the last one is over five over the five month period, 98 vehicles overstayed more than 10 days.

Also uh probably indicator that those are likely um residents in the area.

Um next, we're going to provide you with some potential actions that uh we're proposing as um as alternatives to the parking enforcement.

Thanks, Sambo.

I'm gonna talk about some potential actions for uh council to consider uh after absorbing the data.

Um the four um potential actions, um one of them is updating parking signage.

That's something we've um talked about in the past.

There had been a request, um, especially by uh drinking eating establishment owners that um 6 p.m.

Um enforcement time, it'd be better if it go a little later.

And then also adding Saturdays, so it has been Monday to Friday, uh Saturdays would be added.

Um another potential action is distributing parking maps, and another action is to lease parking spaces in TriMet's park and ride lot.

If we had slides, I'd be spending a little more time on these.

Uh and then also updating some striping on Southwest Scoffin Street to get some spaces.

So um the updated parking signage, um, you know, would only be done in existing time restricted spaces, so we wouldn't be expanding uh the areas of two hour parking only where there is two hour parking now, making it eight to seven Monday to Saturday, and also adding it to the city's two public parking lots on Burnham and Tigered.

And um, we find that since about 80, 85 percent of people do respect those two hour parking limits, um that it would be a good um thing to do to get a little more turnover for parking for our businesses downtown.

Uh another potential action is distributing parking maps.

So this would show clearly on a map of downtown where um on street and off street public parking spaces are and whether they are time limited or not.

And that final product would be provided to businesses, uh residents, uh also post hosted on our webpage.

I would now be showing you a photo of uh uh the TriMet parking lot.

But uh we are currently uh negotiating with TriMet to lease uh 28 spaces at their park and ride lot, and those um spaces right now are limited to users of uh transit, either West or the or the many bus lines that come uh the Tiger Transit Center.

Um the utilisation you know uh indicates that they they are willing to lease some spaces.

So there are just a few details uh we need to work out with them in their um you know their standard boilerplate leases, but uh we feel confident we'll we'll conclude those negotiations and have um 28 spaces available for the public and the last thing to consider um getting some additional parking.

Uh there's actually two locations.

Um there is a small um uh parking lot, about five spaces that is right off Main Street near uh Tyler's Automotive.

And um little known fact that it's actually public right of way that's considered to be part of Southwest Burnham Street, and um there are about five or six spaces there that um would make a lot of sense to sign as public parking, and there actually uh has been requests from business people to do that.

So uh we just need to get those uh spaces striped and signed.

And then the other places we are looking to add parking are um on Scoffin Street.

Uh when we did the main street Green Street uh phase two, um we for the first time added some parking spaces on the corner closest uh to um Main Street on Scoffins, and um we're taking a look at how we could extend that down the street.

So would add a number of spaces to the public parking supply.

So at this time, we would like to take feedback from council on the following discussion items and see if there are any outstanding issues that the council has before we conclude these updates, uh these parking management updates to council.

So the items for discussion were um the data collected, delay parking enforcement until further data collection determines the need for enhanced parking management, and consider alternative options continue to explore alternative approaches to improve customer access to businesses.

So at this time I'd also like to acknowledge that while we have completed our extensive data collection and continue to recommend that parking enforcement remain delayed at this time.

Parking management will continue to be part of the conversation as move forward towards projects such as updates to the city's transportation system plan, um, downtown reimagine, and um as you we mentioned tonight, um the ego project.

So at this time, we're we're here to take your your questions or feedback.

Thank you.

Um so that's uh for efficiency.

Umplete data collection.

Anybody does not want to finish the data collection?

It's okay.

Good.

Thumbs up.

All right.

So we'll complete data collection.

Yeah.

We completed it.

So that was not completely.

Yeah, complete it.

We're done.

Yeah, we're sorry.

Yeah, we're done.

So complete okay.

Are we now done?

That's what we're saying.

Yeah.

We're finished.

We're done with data collecting.

We're affirming that you that the ask for us to stop on this on September 30th is still what you're the council.

So stop collecting data.

Is that thumbs up?

Okay.

So second one, delay parking enforcement while we're not collecting data, so we're not doing parking enforcement.

We we were not doing parking enforcement.

And as of June, the council had requested that we not continue with parking forcement.

And we just want to affirm we are not doing parking enforcement.

Correct.

I support delaying parking enforcement until the need arises.

Everybody's nodding their heads.

Okay.

Okay.

Number three.

Consider alternative options.

Open for discussion.

Okay.

Council President Wolf, please go ahead.

So uh Sean and Saymo, thank you both.

And um I appreciate the negotiations with um the transit parking lot.

But my question is when I think about the lack of use of North Main Street to the proxy.

I'm sorry, oh get here.

Okay, sorry.

Um when I think about negotiating to add spaces at transit adjacent to what I consider North Main Street.

I don't know if we're gaining because that's already a low capac, you know, low usage area.

So if we're not getting folks to North Main, are we going to get them there to park?

So that's my question, my wondering.

That is that is a good point.

Um I think you know there is yeah, there definitely is low utilization of of North Main Street.

However, the addition of a couple more business businesses and some of those um vacant uh storefronts could really change that pretty quickly.

Um we do see is maybe the trimed parking lot could be aimed at employees uh for once it's regular um you know predictable place for them to park.

Um I think also for the Universal Plaza, it could also be uh an attractive place, especially in the summer when uh there's a lot of demand and you know we just have to like put in put in good signage to make it clear because it is it would be a very quick trip.

It's we're talking about basically the last 28 spaces in the lot where it uh meets uh the Ash Avenue extension.

So that would be convenient for uh uh patrons of the Universal Plaza.

Thank you, Sean.

Council Robin, go ahead.

Thank you.

Um thank you for this and for finishing this up.

Um I respect your your expertise.

I do have a question regarding the Atwell apartments because they seem to that area seems to chronically be the overstayers and it looks like residents and stuff.

I know that um, or at least I believe doing some research that residents are required to pay extra for a parking spot, and perhaps there's only one spot per apartment.

I'm not exactly positive on that.

Do we know or have we contacted the manager management company for Atwell and asked, are all your spots being rented, or are some people choosing to do on-street parking without even bothering to try to rent a spot?

Because that you know, if that's the case, then we need to figure out some way to at least enforce it there because it's not fair for it's not fair to break the role constantly, right?

And um, so and I know that's a little bit contradictory to saying we just don't even want to enforce this anymore.

But that and also maybe we need to reconsider some of our development plans that we have where we've we've been trying to limit the amount of parking, thinking that a lot of people don't have cars.

But in this case, it's kind of a uh a high-end development where I I think you can probably expect that most people do own a car, and in this case, if we have developed this so that it's just automatically is at a deficit, then we we are setting ourselves up for a bit of failure.

So that's me coming in after the fact, after the whole thing was built and developed, and I understand that.

So well there is a struggle with with parking and the conversation of parking when it comes to especially housing.

Um state regulations for varying opinions does indicate that we we don't put parking, we don't have minimum parking requirements for um for developments in the area.

And and part that's partially to address the the requirements of the state to um encourage more housing in an area.

Um that does put a it does it does put pressure to um to the development itself to to provide the the necessary parking based on what their what their um performer would say for their development itself.

So we do a lot we we do not um we do not put in parking requirements at this time because that that's just based on trying to um align with state policies for housing.

Council Shaw.

Yeah, and I appreciate the discussion, Council Robins.

And yeah, the the state no longer has, if I'm correct, the parking maximums, and they require parking minimums.

We don't necessarily have we can rephrase this.

We are we can decide what our destiny is.

It just depends on how we do it.

And having spent well over 10 hours today at the Tiger Triangle area, I could tell you parking is a huge problem.

And it's because of all the units that have been built that do not include parking, and including watching several individuals, both um, I'm assuming mothers, fathers could be significant others, trying to wheel carriages out to the middle of the street, trying to put a baby into a car on a side street because they don't have safe parking in a parking lot.

And so I I'm I'm just concerned because I think we are creating a problem.

We have created a problem.

I think there's a way we can work with the state to get a carve out because Tiger has done a very good job in putting multiple housing units up and at multiple price points.

But I think we're to the point now we potentially are endangering those who actually live there.

And so I would encourage us to reach out to our legislative members.

I see representative Dr.

Suricki is not here, but to see if there is a carve-out for those I would say good citizen cities that are doing the job we need to do because it's a problem downtown on Main Street South.

It's definitely a problem in the Tiger Tiger Tiger Triangle, and quite frankly, it's only going to get worse with the second phase of Dakota North being built.

So I'm I'm just very concerned about that.

And I I know Samuel you've heard me echo this now.

I think for four and a half years, if not five, or as long as we've been working together.

So again, I very much appreciate all the work you and Sean have done, but I'm just concerned.

Thank you.

And uh Council Shaw, I'll follow up with the state statute.

I think it's the flip where we have where there are no there are maximum parking requirements, but the minimum requirements have been have been removed.

So that that is that does make it difficult for us to be able to address some of the concerns.

Um the thought is that there are alternatives that we should be encouraging, you know, through transit through through other means.

And um part of our holistic look at parking management is to not only look at what are the um requirements for each of the developments itself, but also ways that we can encourage other uses uses.

And so um again, trying to it's not going to fix the the entire parking situation, but our hope is to be able to find ways to alleviate it and and maybe release the pressures of parking in the area if we can.

I appreciate that.

I think we always should have the opportunity.

But I also think we have the opportunity to have a policy carve out and address the actual problem, which is the parking, instead of can we lease 28 spaces there, are we going to get five more spaces here?

Where I think if we go back to the legislature and say we understand what the concept is, we've done our due diligence.

We have a transportation uh committee that has done a fantastic job looking at alternatives and working towards implementing those alternatives, but hamstringing us as a city not to provide at least a little bit more parking for those that potentially need it.

So in the next 10, 15, 20 years of council meetings, this isn't continuing to be the exact same topic, and we're still looking for 28 spaces here and five spaces there.

So I think we're on the same page, but let's utilize our state representatives and see what we can't do.

I feel like we'll be having a conversation when we talk about legislative requirements, legislative uh asks for the next couple years.

Councillor Schlack.

Um Thank you, Mayor, and I'd like to thank you, Sambo and Sean, for for presenting this information and uh for the the many months and years of diligence on this topic.

Um regarding the the specific recommendations regarding parking signage, parking maps, um potentially leasing spaces at the TriMet parking lot and then additional striping on um Southwest Scoffin streets.

I support those those four alternative um options for parking management going forward.

But I also wanted to uh speak to Councillor Shaw's um contribution because I agree that parking management is something I want to be thinking about citywide, in addition to the sites that she mentioned, thinking of River Terrace 2.0 um and River Terrace 1.0 with parking requirements and residential areas.

So it's it's something I would like to see addressed as part of our transportation strategy plan in 2026.

So thank you, Councillor Shaw, for uh beating that drum.

My microphone had problems, so um so yeah, I echo my counselor's concern and I I uh support continue exploring alternative approach to improve customer access to business.

But um going back to the um the tri mad parking lot, I just want to encourage us to think about what's the problem with them soft and how that's going to address the problem.

But otherwise, I I don't have any more comments.

So, Council Guzzi.

One of the proposed solutions was that extension of the two hour limit to 7 p.m.

Did a majority of the business owners want something like that?

Do they feel that that would overall benefit and the extension from Monday through Friday to Saturday as well?

There was a there was a desire by uh businesses, especially the eating drinking establishments to extend it based on the hours that they're open, as well as Saturdays.

And our our data does show that there is some you know some activities on Saturdays that may warrant us to um include Saturdays as well.

Do you have an approximate estimate as to how much that would cost to just update science data was probably provided in our prior updates?

We could probably we could probably provide you with the uh with the information in uh in a um counselor update.

Um but I will say that that was the ask for this Saturday was also one from the businesses themselves.

So the modified dates were from our parking committee as well as feedback that we received, correct?

That's correct.

Okay.

Yeah, and I believe that that was one of the earliest sort of policy directions from council in December of 2024.

Um and repeated other times, but I distinctly remember when we first or second time we talked about parking um that I was on the council that came up.

Yeah.

The parking signage and the information has always been something we were proceeding to move forward with.

Our our ask of the council was just to uh was um to confirm that we can start with the new signage because I think in our June conversation, the ask was wait till the the data collection I finished and to confirm that the date the the dates and times were what we still wanted to stay with.

So thank you.

All right, let's move on to our next item on the agenda, which is work workplace training discussion.

And I'll HR director Gomez will leave this as a discussion on training opportunities.

Mayor, if I can jump in for a brief um moment.

Please.

I'm excuse me.

I apologize for the uh technical challenges.

We're unable to resume the slide deck, uh, but if you do have your packet handy, those are the slides HR Director Gomez will speak to.

I did have the opportunity to confirm with City Attorney Rahala, and she has no concerns with continuing the discussion without the slides, but I did want to check with you that you are comfortable going forward.

Yes, uh that would be fine.

Thank you.

Welcome.

Thank you.

For the record, if there's recruit, my name is Laura Gomez.

I'm the HR director for the city.

Thank you for having me here this evening.

I am here to talk about the council workplace learning and training opportunity.

If you would like me to slow down, I'm happy to slow down or okay.

Uh on the agenda were three items.

Um first is the learning and training services, the training options, and then the staff recommendation.

The recommendation was to um first one is to go with HR answers, Inc.

It is a tigered company that's been in business for more than 40 years locally.

Uh they have certified HR professionals and subject matter experts that facilitate the training.

Um they have facilitated uh various HR focused education services.

I've attended a couple of them in person and have also used them in some previous employment training opportunities.

Fantastic.

Highly recommend.

And there's some information about Deborah Jeffries, one of the vice presidents and some of her bio.

I won't read all the details.

Unless you'd like me to.

All right.

Um the next slide is the training and learning options.

So the training can be conducted in a format that best meets your needs.

So we can do this virtually, hybrid, um, in person.

It's a two-hour session, is what my recommendation is.

Sixteen hundred dollars.

It includes the prep time, customizing it to what your needs are, uh, the delivery, um, any client communications and any post-follow-up support.

So the recommended training options, recommended.

Let me get my words right, is to conduct a facilitated in-person training, secure a two-hour time uh training session, include the following topics for the uh the training respectful workplace, anti-harassment, knowing roles and responsibilities.

And to schedule the training uh during a session, either a session like this or one that you would prefer if you like a Saturday or weekend or another evening.

Um it was just thought about like the ethics training was conducted during one of these sessions.

I know your calendar is full really quickly, and we're also near the holidays, um, but I will leave this up to you.

Um and so I spoke with the trainer Deborah Jeffries, and she is willing to, if you want her on a Saturday or if you need her in the evening, or whatever day works best for all of you.

Um but like I said, I think the the biggest hurdle is just getting you all together between now in the holidays, unless you want to wait until after the holidays, but so I will open that up for you to ask me any questions.

All right, I will start this way.

Anyway, Counselor Guzsi, you have questions?

I have a lot to say about additional training in HR, but I don't like it.

Which is a personal feeling.

And I I don't like I've obviously done a lot of these trainings both with work with the military, just time and time again annually.

And to be blunt, if you're not respectful, if you don't you know take care of your responsibilities, a training is not going to fix that.

I think this training is also about recognizing sign of others not being professional.

So it's not just about ourselves.

That that was the the last portion for knowing what your roles and responsibilities are.

I might primarily like to add it's the reporting responsibility and when to recognize when you're obligated to report.

Otherwise, you can't be personally held liable for anything that doesn't follow a policy or adhere to statute.

Yeah, counselor Shaw.

Uh Schlack, sorry.

Counselor Schlack.

Thank you, Mayor, and uh thank you, HR Director Gomez, for your staff recommendation.

Uh I support your staff recommendation because the council literally stood in front of the entire organization on September 10th and said, we will do better.

We told our community that at length for the last several weeks.

This council will do better.

It's not enough to just talk the talk.

We need to walk the walk.

This is the first step in walking the walk.

So I support the recommendation, and I will make time whenever the training is happens to be scheduled.

Thank you.

Counselor President Wolf.

Um I mean, I uh appreciate Counselor Gaducy's comment, but I agree with Counselor Schlack.

Um, in um what I wouldn't want is an ethics training where it was a very standard protocol.

We had to complete it.

It was something that was required.

I mean, I did it through the Oregon School Boards Association, you all did it a different way.

This has to be a conversation around a table, being honest with each other, and um just kind of walking through and to that point of making that commitment to staff to our community, uh, and again um in person ability to have conversations, walk through scenarios, uh, and and available whenever it needs to happen.

So thank you.

Okay, youth counselor.

Um I mostly have a question.

Are you thinking of scheduling us before or after we appoint our missing spot?

I will leave this up to the council to make that decision.

Because I think it would be better to do it after, but I don't know how far that how far away that is off the top of my head.

Yeah, we have a discussion coming up.

Yeah.

And I do uh just note the distinction with the roles and responsibilities, and that always is a good reminder for us of where we hopefully will never cross the line, but it does give us that um sort of detail so we can check the box and say yes.

So I appreciate that.

I to um support this wholeheartedly.

I would like to see definitely before the holidays, and I appreciate you, counselor Halleck, your comment.

Um I think if we can't capture that person, that person can catch up and they can take it after the fact because I would hate for us and our council and the commitment we made to both the staff and to our community that we um hold that training up.

Yeah, thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Councillor Robins.

I agree with everyone, both Councillor Gaducy and everyone else.

You know, I've been in these kind of trainings since I was 22.

But um, but again, it's not just our behavior, right?

Um I worry about not including a new person because this isn't going to be something recorded, so would we have to pay more for this to have somebody else come later and get the training again?

I would assume so.

Um the cost to me, I question just for a consultant how much the hourly rate is for $1,600 for a two-hour session.

How many hours does it take really to prep a two hour training and how many hours of follow-up is expected?

Um I realize in the grand scheme of our city budget, it's not a lot of money, but when you look at it at some sort of hourly rate, you know, the public might be questioning how much we're paying per hour for a consultant.

I know somebody doesn't like consultants.

Um to set this up and is this I'm sorry, sorry to sound cheap, but is this the best price we can get?

Um there is a draft course outline um that we've put together hitting some of these points.

How long that takes is really it's uh it's up to you.

But the the prep time um I think also goes with who we're getting for that money, and I have first hand experience with her training, and I can vouch for that training and the effectiveness and the interactive and being able to have these conversations to where we have real real serious conversations and are able to interact and talk about different things.

Um she's presented at the bully conference a number of times, um, which is the Bureau of Labor and Industries that's through the state, which is what we would all do adhere to if something were to not uh be as effective.

So her expertise, the years of experience, um, the credibility of her company, and just throughout the Pacific Northwest as well, I think maybe goes a little bit more for some of that increase of the price.

But um she's the one I'm more familiar with and more competent with in delivering this and was the one who delivered for me a couple of times at the at the state.

But if you'd like more information, I can still get that for you.

If you'd want a different comparator, I'm happy to do that.

Okay, go ahead, counselor Schlack.

One follow-up question.

Who all would be um involved in this this training?

Of course, the six current elected officials will be there, but I'm wondering about if any um city officers or yourself or the youth counselor would also um be intended to be included as part of this training.

I'm also uh meeting with our leadership staff tomorrow, our team to talk about the inclusion of them and also exploring options for our other managers and supervisors at this.

This is this package though is usually grouped for about 40 people.

So if we go beyond that, then there will be something different.

But um, it's also to speak to the different levels, and there are different levels of um responsibilities.

Go ahead, counselor Shaw.

Thank you, uh Mayor.

And to Council Robin's question, would this be videotaped so that individual let's say we could.

I mean, we were originally thinking of doing this during um a council session, like we did with the ethics training, and that would have been videotaped.

Okay, Council President Wolf.

Yeah, and I I think if there's an opportunity for this to be customized, someone that you have really um respected their work for engagement.

I think we start to get away from a a canned um training and that investment of sixteen hundred dollars, especially if the leadership team could join us and really have thoughtful conversations.

I think the value of that gets pretty high.

Um I again support it and would love that engagement of leadership as well.

I think it's a great opportunity.

So thank you.

I agree.

Okay, so do you have enough directions on this?

Not really.

I just like to know would we like to look at a session that's already scheduled?

Or would you like to look at a Saturday or an evening or a different day?

I think there's a preference for recorded, right?

So yeah, my preference, we do it at a council meeting, so it's recorded.

Um again, going to our commitment.

Okay.

Okay.

That's enough direction then.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

All right.

So there being no additional items, this meeting is adjourned.

Good night, Tiger.