On December 9, 2025, the Tigard City Council met for a regular meeting that included public comments, a FEMA update, and a central agenda item: interviewing four candidates to fill a council vacancy and ultimately appointing Tom Anderson. The meeting began at approximately 8:00 pm and lasted into the evening, including a brief recess.
Interview Highlights (key positions and attributes):
Deliberation and Voting:
Note: The meeting included a recess of approximately 10 minutes between interviews and deliberation. The council also noted they would enter an executive session after the open meeting.
Good evening, everyone. Good evening. What did I say? Yeah. All right. Oh, thank you. Nobody ever responded to me before, so I was like, what was that? All right, I will call this uh Tiger City Council meeting to order. Uh Deputy City Recorder Bartholomew, please uh conduct roll call. Council President Wolf. Here youth Councilor Helleck. Councillor Gaducy. Present. Mayor Who? Here. Councillor Robbins. Here. Councilor Schlack. Here. Councilor Shaw. Here. And youth counselor is just walking in. So all right. Would everybody please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. All right. Council and staff, do you have any non-agenda items tonight? None from us, Mayor. All right. Seeing none, let's move move on to public comments. Public comment is the opportunity for us to uh receive feedback and to and uh it's not a dialogue. Um when you uh present your public comment, we will address the issue um later on. So if you want to provide public comments, the calling 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 on the public comment form at the front of the room. Uh so uh we received two written public comments um by Monday deadline yesterday, uh both about counselor appointment. So next uh let's move on to in-person public comments. Uh we have two people sign up, and each of them uh when I call your name, please come forward and state your name and the city you live in. And after that, you have two minutes and uh the timers on the screen. So the first person uh I would like to invite uh up is uh Elise Scher. Good evening. Good evening, Mr. Mayor and Council members. How are you? I'm here to speak in support of Gabe Velasquez as a candidate for the vacant council seat. I've known him for four years and I found him to be thoughtful, personable, energetic, and resourceful. As you know, as you see, he knows how to rally the troops. He would be a fine addition to the Tiger City Council with his background and dedication, and I hope he gets your vote. Thank you. Thank you so much. And next person.