Oh, Tom's question.

Tom's right there.

Oh, because yes.

All right, good evening, everyone.

Happy New Year.

I will call this uh City Council meeting to order.

Uh City Recorder Craig, would you please conduct the roll call?

Councillor Gaducey.

President.

Youth Councilor Helleck.

Here.

Here who?

Here.

Councillor Robbins.

Here.

Councilor Schlack.

Here.

Councillor Shaw.

Here.

Council President Wolf.

Here.

Councillor Anderson.

All right.

So thank you for would you please stand and join me the Pledge of Allegiance?

And to the Republicans.

One nation under God.

All right, Council and staff.

Do you have any non-agenda items?

None from us, Mayor.

Seeing none, we'll go on to the next item on the agenda, which is the oath of office for appointed counselor Tom Anderson.

So Tom and Judge, would you please come forward for the administration of the oath of office?

So they can hear us at home.

Okay.

Ronnie?

Yes.

I state your name, do solemnly swear.

I Tom Anderson, to solemnly swear.

That I will uphold and support the Constitution and laws of the United States of America and the state of Oregon.

That's a lot.

That I will uphold.

Uphold and support the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and the state of Oregon.

And the charter and ordinances of the City of Tiger.

And the charter and 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 counselor to which I have been appointed.

In the office of counselor to which I have been appointed.

Congratulations, Councillor.

Yeah, please come join us at the dais.

Would you like to say anything?

You don't have to, but you can uh yeah, I'm pleased to be here.

Um I'm uh it's an unusual circumstance, but I'm happy to uh and honored to be part of the city again.

And uh I've got warm welcome from both the staff and the council, so I'm just ready to get to work.

So let's have a good 2026.

Thank you, and thank you, uh Council Anderson, for stepping forward to help us out.

And uh we look forward to working with you.

So welcome.

All right, so next item on our agenda is election of council president.

Under our city charter, the council will elect a new city council president every year.

And the role of the council president is to perform the duties of the office of the mayor in the mayor's absence and may perform other duties of the mayor at the mayor's request.

Uh Council Preston has oh has previously joined the monthly transportation strategy team meeting and advisory board to the mayor on upcoming regional transportation discussion.

Election will be by a nominating motion, a second and a vote.

So before I ask for a motion, um does anybody want to nominate themselves or any councilor member?

Council President Wolf.

Um thank you, Mayor.

Who um I actually would like to put my name forward for consideration as the 2026 council president.

Um I have a couple words if council would uh uh indulge me.

Um it has been an honor to serve this past year, and I know that I'm asking for a second term when the charter recently revised elections to be held on an annual basis, so I thank you all in advance for your consideration.

Um I don't think any of us could have predicted the year that we all experienced.

When called to step into a role of mayor pro tem, um I took the responsibility seriously, and I worked to represent the city and council to the best of my ability.

When I asked to become council president, it was to support the mayor in any capacity needed, but also to begin the work of engaging businesses and individuals about the proposed police and public works bond measure.

I have met the target that I set for myself and surpass that goal by uh 30%.

Um I know the bond project is important to all of us.

In my capacity as council president, I plan to continue to reach out to businesses, associations, community groups across Tiger, to advocate for this very important bond project.

Um I've also worked with staff to coordinate legislative tours addressing housing and homelessness and business tours that address economic development in the area.

Um I have directly engaged with our executive directors both at the Tiger Chamber as well as the Westside Economic Alliance, and we'll continue to foster those relationships.

All of these issues remain priorities in 26, and I look forward to successfully achieving those with your support as your council president.

So thank you all.

Thank you, Council President Wolf.

Anyone else?

All right.

Do we have a motion?

Mayor, I move to elect Maureen Wolfe as the Tiger City Council President for a one year term.

I second jinx.

Wow.

Could you tell me who's seconded?

Councilor Robins.

All right.

Uh so uh we have a motion to nomine uh Marine Wolf as the Tiger City Council President for one year term, and it's being second.

Is there any discussion?

Seeing none, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

I uh those opposed say nay.

Hearing none.

Uh Maureen Wolf was selected as a city council person by a unanimous vote of the council.

Thank you all.

And I just want to really thank you, Council President Wolf.

As you mentioned, it was an unusual year last year.

And I really want to thank you for your leadership and both you know for the council as well as the staff.

Um, a lot of work you have done is behind the scene, and and so a lot of things you've done now, you know.

We don't know that, but that's the most important thing that um that anyone could have done for the city and for the council.

So thank you so much, and I look forward to working with you for another year.

Thank you, Mayor Who for the kind words, and I really appreciate the support of all of you.

And let's go get 26.

Thank you.

All right, so let's move on to the next uh item on the agenda, which is public comment.

Public comment um is not a dialogue.

Uh, either the mayor or staff will follow up after you made um to address the issue brought forward by the public common process.

So I just uh wanted to let everybody know that the calling number is 503.

I should put on my readers.

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 common form at the front of the room.

Uh first uh we address the written common.

By the Monday noon deadline, we receive three written public comments.

Uh topics included concerns about increased traffic and 99W and Bull Mountain Row due to proposed housing, special events, and final quick trail crossing at Omara and Hall Boulevard.

And next we'll uh move on to the in-person common.

And nobody sign up.

So anybody anybody wanting to make a public comment but have not signed up, please come forward.

Seeing none, we'll move on to uh phone or video comment.

Uh, Mr.

Wolt, are there any callers in the queue for phone or video testimony?

Mayor, there are no callers in the queue and no requests for video testimony.

All right, very well.

Then let's move on to the city manager report.

And I will I will invite acting city manager Trish to provide a brief report.

Good evening.

Good evening, Mayor, Council, Community Members.

Uh pleased to see so many folks with us today.

Uh welcome to 2026.

In Tiger, the season of giving and caring for each other does not stop with the holidays.

I want to first thank our community members who together donated more than 1,000 items to the basic needs bookshelf at the library, share the warmth winter supply drive in December.

Donations included over 100 pairs of socks, over 200 hand warmers, and dozens of hats.

January continues to be a good time to help your neighbors.

Consider joining the MLK Days of Service January 15th to the 19th, where you can choose from six amazing opportunities to serve the community and honor the legacy of Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

This community-wide series of service opportunities includes several organized volunteer projects along with a flexible option for independent service, offering something for all ages and abilities.

Projects range from supporting our senior center and local nonprofits to creating kindness-inspired art and preparing sack lunches.

Join us in celebrating Dr.

King's commitment to community service and equity through meaningful actions across Tigered.

The web address is on the slide in front of you, or uh use your favorite search engine and search Tigered MLK Day of Service.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Acting City Manager Trish, Counselor.

Seeing none, let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is the presentation of police awards.

And I will invite our police chief McDonald Fowler to do the presentation.

Good evening, Chief.

Good evening, Mayor, members of council, Jamie McDonald, your police chief, and congratulations, Councillor Anderson.

Welcome to the council and or welcome back, I should say.

And uh Council President Wolf, congratulations on your re-election.

Um celebration, at least so far, and we'll continue that with police awards.

So I have tonight, as you can see, quite a stack of awards here.

Um we decided to do uh starting a couple of years ago was to start presenting awards for the fabulous work that our men and women do uh here at council meetings so that we could recognize them appropriately for those for those acts.

Uh, some of which you'll hear tonight are heroic, in fact.

Um, what I've decided is we'll wait till we get all done to do photos because there's a bunch of different awards.

So without further ado, I'm going to uh get started with uh our first one.

This is a life-saving award.

Uh, Sergeant Master and Officer Olsen, if you wouldn't mind coming up over here so we can at least see you.

This is Sergeant Master's third life saving medal.

This is for life-saving efforts that occurred on July 21st, 2025.

Sergeant Brent Masterich was second on scene in response to a CPR assist call.

He assisted with relocating the patient to the floor so that CPR could continue to be administered.

While Officer Olsen continued CPR, Sergeant Masterich connected the AED that delivered a single shock to the patient.

Paramedics arrived on scene to continue the chain of life and care for the patient.

The efforts of officers and paramedics were successful, and they were able to eventually obtain a good pulse.

The patient was transported by ambulance to the hospital for advanced life-saving efforts.

Sergeant Masterich and Officer Olson, aware of the seriousness of the situation, acted purposefully to save the patient and prolong their life.

Their actions reflect great credit upon themselves, the City of Tiger, the Tiger Police Department, and they both demonstrated core values of attitude, leadership, integrity, service, and teamwork.

Gentlemen, thank you.

All right.

But Officer Pompelli couldn't be here.

So for the next life saving award, I have Officer Wakeham.

This is her second life saving medal.

Heather, if you wouldn't mind coming up and joining your colleagues.

This is for life saving efforts that occurred on July 28th, 2025.

Officer Wakecom arrived to find an unresponsive patient already receiving CPR from a friend.

Well, another officer took over CPR, Officer Wakeham readied naloxone and an AED.

Officer Wakem administered the first dose of naloxone and attached the AED pads, while another officer continued to provide CPR compressions.

After 10 rounds of compressions, Officer Wakeham gave another dose of naloxone while compressions continued.

Eventually, the officers were relieved by medical personnel who were able to find a pulse and ultimately transported the patient to the hospital.

Officer Wakem was able to contact the patient at the hospital to confirm they were alive and well.

Officer Wakecom, aware of the seriousness of the situation, acted purposely to save the patient.

Officer Wakem's actions reflect great credit upon herself, the City of Tiger, the Tiger Police Department, as she demonstrated our core values of attitude, leadership, service, integrity, and teamwork.

Great job, Adam.

Another life-saving medal.

This is the second life saving medal for Officer Clayton Fink and the second life saving medal for Colton Fink.

Yes, they are brothers.

So if you all would like to come up here and join your colleagues.

And I before I start with this, I'd like to talk about the fact we're recognizing our neighboring jurisdiction from King City because this shows the partnership that we have with other jurisdictions.

And not hesitating to come and assist someone in our city, Sergeant Aragoni also responded and was a part of this life-saving effort.

So for life-saving efforts that occurred on September 18th, 2025, all of these folks responded to a welfare check to find a non-responsive patient alone inside their apartment.

Without hesitation, they assessed the situation and summoned additional resources to begin life-saving efforts.

Once other officers arrived, they uh officer Clayton Fink, I almost said Officer Fink, Officer Clayton Fink retrieved the AED and readied its use.

As additional officers and paramedics continued to arrive on scene, the chain of life care for the patient was continued.

The efforts of the officers and paramedics were successful.

They were able to eventually obtain a good pulse.

Patient was transported by ambulance to the hospital for an advanced life-saving efforts.

All of these individuals were aware of the seriousness of the situation.

They acted purposely and gave life-saving efforts to save the patient, prolonging their life.

Their actions reflect great credit upon themselves, the city of Tigerd, the City of King City, the Tiger Police Department, the King City Police Department, and they demonstrated core values of attitude leadership, integrity, service, and teamwork.

Thank you to all of you.

This is for specialist Shelly Wirt, PIO Kelsey Anderson, and then Lieutenants Prater, Fox, Odom, and Ericsson.

I know that some of the lieutenants are not here.

They are out sick.

So it is striking us as everyone else.

So if all of you would like to come up and well, like two or three of you that are here, come on up and join.

The unit commendation is being presented tonight for dedication, accuracy, and teamwork displayed throughout the recent Northwest Accreditation Alliance inspection for our department.

As an ad hoc unit, these members came together to ensure that all facets of the accreditation standards were met and verified prior to and during the inspection process.

All of them focused their efforts on ensuring the department's tireless efforts to meet the standards and demonstrate our profession's best practices.

Excuse me.

I probably need your readers.

Representing our organizational values, focusing on details, and ensuring we met the requirements was no small task and required a team of committed professionals to attain.

This commendation acknowledges the hard work and tenacity displayed by all of you and exemplifies the Tiger Police Department's core values of attitude, leadership, integrity, service, and teamwork.

It also reflects great credit upon themselves, the Tiger Police Department and the City of Tiger.

Thank you to each of you for helping out.

This next one, I'd like to mention something about it before I start.

So over the uh in the late summer, we had a couple of incidents.

I'm sure you'll all be uh remembering where we had a couple of uh shootings in town.

Um that caught us by surprise, and uh shortly thereafter we were up, we were able to take the suspect into custody.

And this is recognizing the officers that were involved in that.

So if I could officer, Officer John Carson, uh, Officer April Keller, Officer Ryan Kinneman, Officer Nathan Olson, and Officer Jordan Yamashita come up here, please.

Um I'd like to uh recognize your efforts for this.

Um, and a little bit about the commendation medal.

Uh it takes uh a pretty heroic act uh in order to get one.

As all of you are aware, we don't hand out medals uh without a lot of thought and consideration.

It goes through a vetting process uh through the command team, and so we we uh we don't see these very often.

So this is definitely a noteworthy event.

For commendable action above and beyond assigned work duties or responsibilities that solved a long-standing problem.

On September 30th, 2025, all of these individuals assisted with locating and arresting a suspect who had committed two shootings and a menacing with a firearm over the course of a week in the city of Tiger.

At that time of the arrest, the suspect had shot a patron in a local restaurant and fled the scene in a vehicle.

The arrest required exceptional teamwork and coordination to take the suspect into custody without incident.

Additionally, officers were able to locate the firearm used in the assault, preserve it, and other evidence for collection, and manage two crime scenes that were geographically separated.

The scene at the assault was described as large and chaotic, with numerous witnesses to interview, video to locate, and other evidence to collect.

All of these officers, their actions reflect great credit upon themselves, the city of Tiger, the Tiger Police Department, and they all demonstrated the Tiger Police Department's core values of attitude, leadership, integrity, service, and teamwork.

Thank you, all of you.

Well done.

All right.

Now I have our of the year awards.

Uh if I can get Sergeant Northcote to uh head up this way, I would appreciate it.

Sergeant Northcote is a consummate professional who consistently represents the values of the community in every interaction.

Throughout 2025, Sergeant Northcote focused heavily on leadership development, uh, both as a student and as an instructor.

He successfully completed the rigorous Tiger Leadership Tiger curriculum and played a key role in one of as one of the most involved instructors in revamping the police department's defensive defensive tactics program.

In particular, we put emphasis on uh the initial training for our new officers, and he was critical in that development.

Sergeant Northcote can be found throughout each shift actively mentoring the officers he works with, always maintaining a positive demeanor and using real-world examples to reinforce his guidance.

He consistently recognizes potential issues and takes initiative to address them before they escalate.

Additionally, Sergeant Northcote is vital to the camaraderie within the Sergeant Cadre and is willing and willingly assumes additional responsibilities when needed, often seeking credit or often without seeking credit or recognition.

Sergeant Northcote is an outstanding representative of the Tiger Police Department in the City of Tiger, and for these reasons he has been selected as Supervisor of the Year for 2025.

Officer Colton Fink, who is already up here.

Step out in front a little bit so people know who you are.

Officer Colton Fink has been instrumental in supporting the supporting the police department while protecting the community by making over 79 arrests of impaired drivers, plus 47 additional arrests in over 1,200 traffic stops in 2025.

Officer Fink's dedication to his craft is amazing and has set a standard that others will struggle to repeat.

On top of his outstanding DUI enforcement, Colton is always one of the first to volunteer to help when patrol is short staffed or on a complex call.

It can always be seen walking through the door with a smile on his face, which is true.

Looking at me smiling right now.

I knew he would be.

I didn't even have to look at him.

Officer Fink is the kind of officer that others want to work with.

And his exemplary effort in 2025 is the reason he was selected as officer of the year for the Tiger Police Department.

Melissa, I know you're back there.

Come on up here.

Melissa lives the police department core values of attitude, leadership, integrity, service, and teamwork every day, but she personifies our core value of attitude by always greeting our community members and staff with a smile or helpful demeanor and a good sense of humor.

She is relied on for her expertise in records to help train new employees as well as evaluate prospective new hire candidates during interview panels.

She is a team player and takes on extra work without hesitation to make sure the work gets done.

Record specialist Black represents the Tiger Police Department at the highest level, and it is for this reason that she has been selected as professional support staff person of the year for 2025.

All right.

For our final award tonight, I'd actually like to have retired officer Nick Nunn.

Come on up here, please.

I've got a seat right next to me.

Come on up here, Nick.

Nick retired, oh, I don't know, the end of June, July 1st.

Um Nick was my last recruit when I was a field training officer.

Uh so it was a little bittersweet to have you retire before me.

Um he did.

And uh he wouldn't let us have a retirement party for him, so this is my way to get back at him a little bit.

Um his career uh serving uh in a variety of different roles.

Uh he was the TPOA president for a number of years, but more importantly, he was a school resource officer, and he was absolutely adored by the children in this community and the instructors uh in the schools that he got to work in.

Umeanor is perfect for that type of role.

And uh the funny thing is Nick retired and then is now doing security in the Hillsborough School District now because he just couldn't help himself.

Retirement was not suiting him.

So tonight I am I am very proud to get to award the Distinguished Service Medal to uh Nick.

Nick, this is for exceptional performance above and beyond assigned work in the furtherance of goals of the department during a distinguished police officer career with the Tiger Police Department.

I read this three times today.

Officer Nunn twice served as a school resource officer with an eight-year tenure in the role, including four years in the challenging environment at Tiger High School.

Officer Nunn was also selected as a traffic safety motor officer.

That's right, I forgot about that.

Field training officer and as an acting sergeant.

Officer none exemplified peer leadership with the Tiger Police Officers Association Union president, guiding the union for six years through an officer involved shooting involving an association member, police reform initiatives, and the COVID nineteen pandemic, all of which presented unique challenges.

So he uh he gets his uh shadow box tonight.

Uh and then also, Nick, I have here uh a nice a couple of things from uh Department of Public Safety Standards and Training, which is uh our certifying body.

And um this says in recognition of your service to Nicholas A.

Nunn, uh, DPSST number three seven, six two five, in appreciation for your contributions to the citizens of Oregon, the public safety community as a certified public safety professional, thank you for your service.

And it's signed by the uh the director of DPSST, Phil Castle.

So uh and then there's also one here for your wife.

Because that's probably the more important one.

So make sure she answered that.

Um, thank you, Nick.

Uh, thank you to all of you.

Uh, mayor, counsel, if you'd like to do some photos, uh, we'd love to do that.

And I I don't want to delay the meeting if we're if we're out of time.

But we definitely would like to do that, but I want to congratulate all the award recipients and thank you so much for your service, your dedication, and your professionalism.

Um, your service does make a difference to our community.

And uh, from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much.

Thank you.

Let's go photos.

How how do we do this?

One quote at a time.

We'll wait a little bit while we get people out of the city hall, and we wait for council uh counselor Robins, she will be right back.

So let's take a five-minute break.

Go again.

So I will reconvene our council meeting, and let's move on to the next item on our agenda item, which is consent agenda.

The consent agenda is used for routine items.

Information on each item is available on the city's website in a packet for this meeting.

This item may be enact in one motion without separate discussion.

Council members may request that an item be removed by motion for discussion and separate action.

Tonight we have four consent items.

A resolution in support of the city's application for a metro grant to study existing and potential TIFF, which is tax incremental financing district, approval of an intergovernment intergovernmental agreement with ODOC to receive an Oregon community path grant for final quick uh regional trail safety improvements and two contracts, one for street light replacement and one for ADA, which is Americans with Disability Act ramp improvements.

All right, those in favor say aye.

Those opposed say nay.

This is um this is a fun night, so I'm excited.

We got to be here this evening.

Um so we wanted to come before you and share some information um about some uh proposed cuts to budgets for um these individual four events that we talked to about a couple of months ago, and we can go to the next slide.

And so the action and um advice that we're looking for.

Um we'd like to know what you think of the proposed cost reductions for the four events, Juneteenth, Pride Festival, Fourth of July, and I'll see Grayfest.

Um wanting to know if you would like us to continue with these four events, so not adding any or removing any.

And then for Fourth of July, we had talked a little bit before about drone show versus fireworks, and that's something that has come up over the past couple years, and now it's at the point you know where we'd like to start pursuing looking at contracts for for a provider.

So that's the last thing that we would like your guidance on.

And we can go ahead and go to the next slide.

So as you know, we were here on October 21st.

And so one of the things that we talked about was sponsorships.

And so we did go back to the drawing board on sponsorships and really revise those tiers.

But just to give a really brief overview, we're still sticking with Pride Festival 4th of July in Alti Gray.

So we're not explicitly pursuing sponsorships for Juneteenth.

The biggest change is the tiers.

So they start at 2,000 and go up to 10,000.

So 2,000, 5,000 and 10,000.

So big increase, and we're hoping that that would really help bring in some funds for these events.

So I wanted to give you that update.

And then as I said, we're also looking for guidance around proposed cost savings, which we detail in the next slides.

So we can go to the next one.

So for Juneteenth, Juneteenth is really a lower budget event out of all of the events.

So we hope to have one online by the end of this week, early next week.

And so with that, with deciding to enlist their assistance in really helping us to get sponsorships, we've taken Juneteenth out of their contract.

I did want to point out though, we still retain our partnership with Juma Watley, who we worked with last year for Black History Month and also for Juneteenth.

And so we still would really like to work with him.

But as far as the overall events consultant that works on all of our events, they wouldn't have uh contract hours going toward this event.

Um so it's hard to calculate the exact cost savings because it will mean somewhat more staff hours.

So that's why I didn't put it up here, but I wanted to make sure that that was known.

Um we are still wanting to talk with Tiger Chamber of Commerce about potentially working with them on Juneteenth, as they had um suggested a possible alignment there.

Um we just haven't had a chance since the holidays wrapped.

Um and then scaling back some of the food, that's really the major cost for this event.

Like I said, it is a lower cost event, but we provide an entire catered meal.

So if we can scale that back or potentially have vendors sell food, that will that will save us a bit.

And I wanted to take an opportunity to pause after each event if you all would like to give feedback as we go along.

You're more than welcome to do so at this point.

Any feedback on Juneteenth?

Counselor Shaw.

And then now have because of funding, they've reduced their funding, or if they're not participating.

Yeah, yes, good question.

So TTSD is still participating in the planning of both Pride and Juneteenth, but they're no longer giving their financial contribution, which was $2,500 per event.

Um, so they're still assisting in meeting and um providing uh input, especially from their school communities.

That's really where they have always kind of excelled is um relationships with families and and the students and getting their input um both for Juneteenth and Pride, and so they'll still assist with that.

For Pride, they have an even larger role, which I can get to when we get to that slide, uh, but they just won't be contributing financially, and they have scaled back a bit on staff support.

So whereas you know, we would we would meet five of us, four folks from uh TTST and a couple folks from the city weekly for months in the past, now it's really just one or two people.

Um so you know, they're facing kind of similar crunches and being stretched in the way many of us are, um, but we're happy to still have their involvement at that level.

Anybody want to eliminate June 18th?

I'm not thank you very much for calling on me, and thank you for this.

Um I am pulling up the cost analysis too, because I think that helps to have the total amount, not just the savings of 3,000.

Um I didn't raise my hand to eliminate the event, but I do want to talk about it a little more carefully.

Actually, 28, 27,950.

So 28,000, and we think 150 people attended, right?

And it's been about 150 every time.

And I could you please explain again what the 3,000 savings would be.

That would just be savings on the meal.

So we and I don't have the detailed budget in front of me, but I'd be happy to get that for you.

But we provided we provide the meal for everybody there.

So that includes kind of the whole spread, and that's kind of the center piece of the event.

However, that doesn't mean that we can't still have a really celebratory, you know, event without that piece.

So it would just really be cutting back on that.

Um we certainly could look at cutting some more in terms of programming or other things.

Um the kind of strength of this event is the kind of informal community feel.

Um so I think we, you know, if we wanted to make further cuts, we could still retain that feel to an extent.

Um but yeah, that's just kind of when we were looking at the events, that seemed like the obvious place to cut, and still kind of um being somewhat conservative in the cut, so that it's not a very large difference for people that have been going year after year.

Um that said, you know, we can certainly look at more.

So that makes sense.

Um that actually is seems like a higher percentage savings since it was 27,000, so 3,000 is more than 7%.

So that would that's kind of a bonus.

But um, I have one question.

I see that in 2023 you did not attend the event then.

What was the difference between 2023 and 2025?

Because the cost um looks like it more than double, like it actually almost tripled.

So yeah, you're right.

I mean, I think that we did add a lot more in terms of entertainment.

Um had we had really relied on for um to an extent student performances.

Um, and for whatever reason, that just kind of got more challenging to get students to commit to perform.

Partly I think it's um, and by perform, I mean either do like an actual performance or just speak, um get up and be a speaker.

Uh and I think the time of year is a little hard because school has just let out really recently.

Um, and so we were hoping that um by adding kind of a new a new infusion, it would it would keep people coming back.

Um so I think it's primarily in in talent and probably food costs went up a bit too, but I would be happy to kind of get you the more detailed information so that I don't say the wrong.

That's okay, that's that's enough.

But maybe we could consider because I know we have pretty we we need to save a lot of money this year.

We have a pretty big deficit.

Um, maybe consider pulling back on some of the talent again and again try to get some more students simply because the attendance hasn't changed.

So we didn't see like a lot more people come with the national um national speakers, and so maybe we could try that or maybe ask some people to donate their time as well.

Okay, counselor Pressant Wolf.

Thank you, Councillor Robbins.

So thank you, Councilor Robbins, because I was thinking the same thing.

It brought me back to Counselor Shaw's comment about TTSD and kind of the financial commitment, but if that could be leveled back up in kind per se with student engagement, um that would help us to support the other events, whether that's pride or other partnerships with them.

Um I would love to see that um as an opportunity, especially since we're not seeking to get sponsorships in that.

I think, and I get the timing, right?

I know that's really hard because there's a lot of activities at the end of the year, and then students are out, but um I would love to see that too.

So thank you for that, Councilor Robinson.

Do you know how much are we spending talent?

Roughly, oh um, well, I do know that the this would be this would actually be under contracts though, but Juma Watley did do all the booking for us last year, and I believe his contracted amount was three thousand.

So he actually um like took on all of the the contracts for performers himself.

So I can't tell you how that split apart because he was kind of um he's the one that procured that talent stage managed.

Um but it would not have exceeded three thousand um last year.

So do we do you have any figuring, Maya?

How much go ahead?

I like the idea and maybe link back up.

Is there any other events that we provide a full meal for individuals who attend?

Not that I am aware of.

The uh public works and uh police open house family fund day.

That is uh a free meal that is provided.

Okay, and I think that's somewhat of a different event.

But um the reason I'm asking because we have so many great food options in Tiger that are small businesses, and I would even love to see us instead of us providing the meals that we have those small businesses be available to provide those meals at and perhaps there could be some sort of subsidized cost, but let's get those um food trucks restaurants get their name out there.

We're talking about economic development tonight, yeah, and that could be a really good opportunity.

So I wouldn't for one would like to see the mail no longer provided, but that we have options for uh availability of food for purchase.

Thanks, Councillor Shaw.

That's a great suggestion.

Thank you.

Going back to the talent part, do we want to explore go ahead, Councilman Schlack?

Oh, I was just gonna say, and this is kind of my feedback for all the events.

I support the level of cost savings that you all are finding, however, you all want to get to that that point.

I think um my main concern was not I support having all of the events.

I wanted to see the spending scaled back, and I think as we're gonna see with some of the other slides that um are coming up, we have a about 10 or 11% cut across all four events, some events more than others just because of the scale of them, and in general, I'm supportive of scaling it back in the ways that you have um assessed you all are obviously much more in the weeds than I am about uh what it takes to put these events on.

So um that's my general feedback on this.

Okay, so the feedback I got from the council is cut a food, put the free food and explore uh reduction in talent costs, not not talent by itself, but the cost of requiring talent.

Okay, so let's move on.

Great guidance.

Yeah.

Um, not even a joke.

Maybe the council can do something.

I don't know.

Yeah, there you go.

Volunteer this.

All right.

All right, we can go to the next.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, we always do the Cupid Shuffle.

Keep it shuffle.

Um, so moving on to Pride.

So this again, I think reducing stage talent and rentals will be where we can save um the most.

We had um kind of two co-headliners, I guess you could say last year.

We had um roller skating, we had a lot of really fun things.

Um, but that is something that we've tried to add something new every year, which is wonderful in terms of keeping it fresh, but incrementally does increase the cost of talent.

So that was the primary uh thought that we had there.

We also do print t-shirts and give them out for free as kind of a keepsake and you know, to create um just goodwill around pride specifically throughout the city, kind of throughout the year, so people can wear them.

But we can consider alternatives to that.

T-shirts are expensive.

Um so those are a couple ideas we had there.

And then um obtaining sponsors.

Um I kept it really at the same level for all three events, which I know is a very conservative estimate, but you just really never know a sponsors.

Um so five to ten grand seems doable.

Last year we bought it, brought in, I believe, three thousand seven hundred and fifty in sponsorships, so up to five thousand, it's not a big jump.

Um, and or we could sell t-shirts.

So um the total cost offsets could be up to eleven thousand um in addition to the savings.

So I'll pause here to see if there are any questions or comments on that one.

Counselor Schlack?

I just want to make sure I'm understanding this.

So there's the cost savings that we're being asked to to give a sort of green light to, and then separately from that the cost offset sets are are factored separately from there.

Yeah, I mean that's kind of how I was thinking of it because those are a little bit more of an unknown you know, it's more within our direct control to just kind of chop from some of the other line items.

So yeah, I um you know I thought last year's event was wonderful, but I support the proposals that you are you are making.

Thank you.

Um at the risk of being in the weeds.

The only thing that I wonder about is if there's value in getting more sponsorships because you're handing out t-shirts to everybody for free with maybe sponsorships on the back.

True.

So that's right here and then sponsorships there, and is there value in that?

So just a food for thought.

Or like an in-kind uh we can find a local uh shirt provider um throw their sponsorship on the back.

I mean if the shirts were a thousand, but you could pick up fifteen thousand.

I mean, I don't know, but I would because my my question is if you're getting sponsorships, how are you promoting that they're a sponsor?

Right.

Um, and I didn't know if that was a way to do that, but I'm I'm doing your job now, so I apologize.

But I was just thinking about that, so thank you.

Helps us out.

Definitely, I've definitely seen that done with festival shirts, so that makes perfect sense.

So yeah, we'll definitely explore that.

Oh counselor Anderson.

Yeah, I have a question.

What are the hours of the thing?

If if we could maybe uh reduce by an hour, most of the most of the costs are staff time.

So if we could reduce and uh identify the peak hours where people are gonna be coming there, could be an idea.

Yeah, thank you, Councillor Anderson.

So this is kind of a different event, whereas the parade I would say, and again, I don't have the exact breakdown here, um, but the bulk of the staff time here is for the parade for PDE and for the streets team to shut down the street um and then police at the event um just to to be present, um, you know, both for community building and for security.

So um the festival itself is I believe it's two hours.

The parade, we leave about an hour for, and then the parade ends at the festival location, and it's just a two-hour festival.

Um so yeah, I think that um the staffing is more to do with the logistics in this situation, and then the planning as well.

One thing I did want to mention, however, is that there had been some um interest, I think from one of you all about potentially looking at moving the event downtown.

Uh and so um there that would definitely do um it could really increase the attendance to move it downtown.

Um and I'm not sure if it would reduce staff time and planning, but it may.

And um, so I have a call in the police actually to meet with them, but I wanted to kind of get through this meeting first.

So that is something else that we have looked at.

Yeah, uh counselor Schlack.

I just want to clarify because I've heard about the um moving the the festival downtown option before.

Would that just be a festival then, or would the intention also to be have some have some uh aspect of a parade with it?

Yeah, I think the intention would be to have to to cut to pretty much keep the event the same, but to just move it downtown and then have um the festival be Universal Plaza.

Um we again this is all just ideas, but there was also some discussion of doing of moving Juneteenth downtown so that it could maybe even be in concert with like the farmers market.

So I don't know if that's even a possibility for Pride.

We Nicole and I did really go down the road of talking about having the parade be downtown three years ago, I believe.

And at that time, police wasn't particularly keen on the idea, however, it's been several years and it can be reassessed.

But yeah, so it would be the the kind of the whole thing.

Um I believe when we came in October, there was some discussion of you know, do we have to do both, right?

Um so I didn't present that as an option.

That doesn't mean it's of course not on the table.

Um that's just kind of you know what our thinking was that the savings that we were proposing was seemed like we could continue to do both.

However, if that was something that council desired for us to explore, we could do that.

Yeah, so um this is the point where I think I have to give back my grand marshal sash um for from the parade.

But I'm at I would be open to considering that if we were changing the venue, because I think for me, having gone to this event a couple of times, uh it's wonderful having the parade, but I find the festival to be the part that really creates that sense of community because you have everyone getting together, you have all the entertainment, you have the food, it's sunny outside, it's a really great time.

Um so I'm curious if that's maybe something we want to leverage more as a Pride Festival event.

Um if we if we will, you know, I'd be open to exploring that.

Of course, the parade is wonderful too.

Um so just wanted to put that out there.

To your point as well as uh mentioned like stimulating local business, uh, that counselor shaw mentioned.

I think that having it centralized at a downtown location would also stimulate local businesses, like the tap house.

I could see people stopping by there.

We went to the tree ladding earlier last year and it was packed because people were waiting to go see the tree lighting.

And I would see a very similar simulation of local economy um have if that move was considered.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, there's considerations, you know, no matter what.

I think one thing that is strong about this event is that for one thing, it allows there to be less.

I know it looks, and there is a quite a big spend on on staff time for this event, but we do have the wonderful benefit of our colleague Lisa Burton at this district who is really planning all of the festival vendors for us.

So that load is really taken off of the city.

Um so if we had to be in charge of of putting all of that together, that kind of would add more on that end.

So it's all you know, just about um the balancing act of um there's merit in all of the ideas, I guess.

But um, yeah, is that something that you know you'd like us to really kind of sketch out as an idea, we could do that.

So we want we want staff to sketch out having the event in downtown instead and possibly explore the possibility of reducing staff time for a if that's possible.

Or not having the parade.

Or not having to parade.

Which is having the parade around downtown.

Yeah, I want to be careful.

I'm totally satisfied with the potential cost savings of 10% that you have identified.

If we just lift and you know, do the same event last year, but reduce, I'm satisfied with that.

I'm just saying if we are looking at changing the venue, just sort of thinking about downtown logistics.

If we were to move to more of a just downtown pride festival without the parade, I could be open to the exploring that idea as well.

But I'm satisfied with with what you presented.

I apologize for presenting competing uh options to consider.

I'm satisfied with this option.

Cool.

Thank you.

Is that true for everybody?

Okay.

So all right, let's move on.

I I just wanted to do a time check.

We are already over 10 20 minutes.

But it's fine.

All right.

We still have some time.

So all right, let's keep going.

Let's keep going.

Yes, we can go to the next slide.

I'm gonna let you take this one.

Oh, hey, it's me.

Look at that.

All right.

So El El Tigre Fest.

Um just circling back from October 21st.

Um, we did see a reduction in the attendees, but I think because of the current uh political climate um and the presence of ice, there was uh foreseen that we we saw a reduction in um attendees from the Hispanic uh community.

Uh with that said, we did make some really important key community partnerships and engagement uh with folks throughout the county and throughout the state, um, including Washington County, um Lewis and Clark Community College.

So offsetting the cost with our budgetary constraints.

We're my our goal is to focus on the community engagement piece.

It really kind of touches back to what you mentioned, council mentioned with um Juneteenth, relying on our local talent because that's uh folks recognize their own kids as opposed to someone that they don't.

So um a perfect example of that was working with um Los Benavas Football Club, local uh tiger-based uh soccer club.

So the potential cost savings we're looking at with a reduction in talent and programming uh with our contractor is $10,000 and uh additional other uh cost savings that we can find with some of our other programming that we can get creative with, which is relying on our local partnerships to provide those kind of fun program activities.

Um shout out to again to uh Ron, who was the uh we learned this from him with the Fourth of July uh tradition uh that he created.

You you can have uh a lot of people entertained for a long time with a couple uh sack races.

Uh so that's that's kind of the ethos that we're looking at with L Tigre.

Um so uh yeah, uh we're looking at a total of a nine percent um potential cost savings.

Um sponsorships already in talks with some of the folks that have been sponsored uh in-kind sponsors.

Zipley Fiber is a big one that has helped out.

They actually helped sponsor the local uh Los Benados soccer tournament that we had.

Um so um those conversations are beginning, and um the other one was again selling t-shirts.

Uh I I love the idea of having uh sponsors being front and center.

Um it is a big event.

We have a lot of folks that attendees.

So but saving up nine percent and uh the sponsor and t-shirt will be icing on top of that.

So counselor Robins.

Thank you.

Um first, just um for sponsors.

I I definitely think you could be able to get more than $10,000 in sponsors for this event.

It's a great event.

Um we have performance come from far away to perform and and it's pretty cool.

Um I I have seen with with other events I've done, and again, not to get in the weeds, but you can have a shirt sponsor.

You know, you can call one of the sponsorships levels shirt sponsor and they get the biggest logo on the back with all the other ones or something like that.

Um so hopefully we can get more sponsorships.

I um am wondering if since I don't think the political climate is gonna be much different this coming fall, do we expect a lower attendance again?

Not to make it like it's a wonderful event and not to say oh make it smaller or worse, but just you know, kind of go in knowing that we're probably gonna have similar attendance to this year or worse because of the increasing ice activity that we're having and put that in mind so that and with hopes that it will continue to increase in the future, but kind of go in with our eyes open this year.

So thank you, counselor.

Council Shaw.

Absolutely thank you counselor counselor Shaw yeah thank you for all the information um noting counselor Robin's note and about the continued reduction in head count just because of we know of some immigration issues and I'm wondering if we can't um since it is a very large number uh of 107 for 20 approximately 2600 people I'm wondering we can make a game time decision of just even pivoting and if their needs in the community whether it's delivering food or what have you maybe making that part of it.

So it's just it's money that could be uh reallocated but maybe used a little more uh directly for a benefit as opposed to celebration but I do like celebrations as well so just a thought thank you counselor shaw thank you okay all right move on to the next one okay so yes I know we are a little bit running short on time so this is this is kind of the one um this is this is the one so I did send along the survey results um to council several weeks ago and it's also was attached to the AIS so you probably have had a chance to go through that so I won't spend a lot of time on it now we got 61 responses out of 8,000 some attendees so not a large percentage in terms of response rate.

But um I do think that it was pretty clear that folks do the people that took the survey anyway prefer fireworks to drones.

We know that it's a very big cost savings.

I've already been speaking with Western display fireworks who provided fireworks in 2023 and prior um they're based in Oregon.

So of course we're not in any sort of um we're not beholden to do anything with them at all but they are available so I just wanted to share that and um that's really going to be the biggest savings of of anything that we can do.

So I really just wanted to open that up for your comments and considerations of course we can also do some things to reduce programming it's not going to have as big of a um impact on the bottom line obviously but one thing we thought of is um if we reduce some of the hours of the event actually and then maybe rely more on like the middle of of Millen Drive parade or some of the other community events that are going on so that we can not provide as much programming in the lead up but really just focus on the show.

So even if we do stick with drones that's still an approach that we could take I didn't attach a dollar amount to that um because we're you know it's kind of focused on that top line item so yeah I'd love to hear everybody's thoughts on that one.

All right um so that's let me start with Counselor Codus because I hope I hasn't I haven't missed him.

I I haven't seen raise his hand so counselor could see fireworks or drone I have always liked the fireworks a bit better and the cost savings with this ends up being significant I like that Western display is a local company as opposed to sky elements from Texas so I I like the fireworks overall one concern that I do have about merging this with the middle of Millen is in terms of logistics I don't know how that would work just given what it was like and how many people attended the fireworks.

But that's that's my only concern okay counselor anderson fireworks should be fine.

Okay use counselor I think fireworks especially because you did say that the survey people want to yeah counselor Shaw have a couple of comments one fireworks are definitely fun and more enlightening than drones however uh we have to note that we aren't getting any more rain or snow currently Mount Bachelor was closed over the weekend there was no snow in central Oregon so we are potentially looking at another fire season and we do know that fireworks cause fires and so and yes it may be less expensive costs but if we look at what it would cost our um both our fire departments and our police it could be expend exceptionally more so just want to note that I'm agnostic but if we had to choose one or the other I would say I'd choose drones because of the fires and also I think we should double down on this event.

It's a 250th anniversary declaration of independence I think we could make this a really big deal and I would put most of the money towards this event since we also get anywhere between 8,000 and 2025 and 1000 people coming to Tiger.

So again it's a good visibility event.

So thank you mayor.

Council Parson Wolf.

Did we also have more support around parking and logistics and some of those where if we go back to fireworks, it's more dispersed because people are watching in different venues, and therefore maybe some of that and maybe that's just hopeful, right?

Because we certainly don't want to be understaffed and then not prepared for um traffic, but that was something else in my mind is to some of that disperse because people are watching from different uh places.

So I love the idea, and we tried it, and I think that it was an important thing to do, but I am leaning towards fireworks and then any potential savings that follow beyond the reduced cost.

So thanks.

Thank you, Counselor Schlack.

Fireworks.

Thank you.

Counselor Robinson.

Thank you.

Um I'm gonna say fireworks, looking at the I do appreciate the the fire concerns, and I wonder if if we have to cancel due to weather or fireworks, do we get a refund?

I doubt it, but something to ask, maybe.

But um looking at the survey, if you look at how did the drone show compare to traditional fireworks and I realize it's only 61 people, but the much worse is this big.

I think you have worse, about the same, better, much better.

And so we did the survey for a reason.

We should listen to those people.

Yeah.

I I agree.

I I think we the council would try for two years to do our experiments, and I don't think the ex I mean I'm a I'm a scientist by training, so I understand that experiments don't always work out, but it's good that we try.

But right now, I sing uh YouTube video and the kind of uh show that impressed me requires thousands of drones, and I don't think we'll have the budget for that.

So I will prefer going back to fireworks.

And I understand Councillor Shaw's concern.

I have the same concern, but hopefully the professional that handle those work would know how to mitigate those risks.

And I hope we would um have plenty of time to warn our community who who may be suffering from PTSD to leave our community before the uh the drone show.

I mean the the fireworks show.

So uh overall I think the council prefers fireworks and we want to explore additional uh saving um measures if possible.

And I will ask that we consider all possibility of for mitigating the harm that might be caused by fireworks.

So go ahead, counselor Shaw.

I was just curious.

Um I believe it's Councilor Gudusi, you mentioned Western digital or Western display is from Texas.

Oh, Sky Elements is okay.

Is Western display from Oregon?

They're based in Oregon, and I think it can be.

Great, thank you.

Counselor Schlack.

Sorry, just um looking over the charts.

Um, and this is sort of blends between Fourth of July and L T Gray.

So if we take down um Fourth of July to fireworks, that puts it about on par with what we spent at L Tigre last year.

So I'm just wondering, considering, you know, I know we've been going line by line and approving these, but I think Councillor Shaw brings up a good point about this being such an important anniversary year for Fourth of July and looking at you know how much we're spending on L T Gray versus Fourth of July, the number of attendees involved.

Um I'm just sort of thinking aloud in terms of how could we shift more money towards Fourth of July across the events in order to be a bit more proportionate with the amount of people that are actually attending.

Yeah, support that.

You want to respond?

We're we're at the um speaking to some of the production companies that we've worked with in the past, we're out the kind of precipice of having to have that bigger production.

Um we do have an infrastructure as far as like sound design goes.

Um the city purchased those to kind of offset some of the costs year after year for smaller events.

Um so concerts in the plaza use utilizes this, um, other um smaller concerts use it.

Um we realized that last year, even after tripling that sound system, we're at the point where we're going to need uh an El Tigre style sound system if we were to have that same sort of um kind of show uh show that we had at Cook Park last year, um just because of the infrastructure and logistics to carry that sound out to that many people.

So if we move to fireworks, can we still have people viewing them from Cook Park, or do we need to move back to Tiger High School like before?

So we we actually did meet with some parks staff, and we would like to continue those conversations now hearing your guidance.

Hearing your guidance, um we will need to meet with the facilities staff at TTSD because there are issues with uh having large numbers of people on the turf.

Right.

And so that really um we were discouraged from using the high school last year.

Um so we talked when we talked with Parks, Leandra and I, we talked about four different options of where people could, you know, where the launch would be versus where the audience would be.

Um and it's probably gonna be some combination of cook and some TTSC property, Tiger High, probably, um, is my guess, but we still really need to hammer that out.

So it will disperse, and I kind of have a whole I know that you sent that question, and also I know Counselor Gaducy sent a question as well that probably don't have time to address, but I have responses for both of you.

Um but yes, it will disperse the audience more so that everybody won't there won't be this critical mass of people in one specific area because drones just don't have the visibility.

Um I don't think to be frank that it will reduce the need for traffic control that much, however, because traffic control was not in a great place previously, to be frank, like there um there were safety issues that really needed to be addressed.

So I think it will um it will help in other areas.

Um it might not help in reducing the cost of traffic control specifically, but more people will be able to see the show, and I feel like there are many other you know valid benefits to to moving to fireworks.

Yes.

Okay, so now you have our council directions, and so it looks like you still have some details that you need to work on.

So yeah, we are way over time.

So please so now you have our directions, so please work on those details and please uh provide us more updates as you what work them out.

So thank you so much.

Thank you very much for thank you, counselors and mayor.

Thank you.

I'm sorry, um forgive the interruption.

I just wanted to make sure that all of the questions that you had requested guidance on were answered.

Sure.

So I would be happy to answer those questions now, or if performance since I know.

I'm sorry, the questions that that you had asked at the start of the presentation.

I think that there's a lot of questions that we had asked.

Yes, I do.

I believe there's still an outstanding question.

If if we have we can get your direction on one more item.

Does the council accept proposal cost reduction to city event?

Yes, we do with a couple of um directions.

And we can move forward a slide as well because those are repeated on the and we agree to continue with those four events.

Fourth of July will be file works, and but we want to see if we can explore options to I think council will not will not mind to spend more money on Fourth of July in proportional to Altigue.

Is that right?

Based on attendance.

That's based on attendance, yeah, proportional to attendance.

So okay.

Got it.

Go ahead.

One last.

Yeah, we I don't want to make a hard and fast decision because we don't know what sponsorships look like.

So if um if there's an event that we don't get any sponsorship for and it looks like there's just not community excitement around it, then I would still like the council to have the ability to go back and say it just doesn't make sense and maybe reallocate those dollars.

But I I'm more interested in that we have that opting once we see what the sponsorship numbers look like.

Okay, so do we have enough time to make those kind of decisions?

Uh as far as for this year, yeah.

I think that would be difficult.

I was thinking you meant for the next year.

Um we would have to have a you know a cutoff date for sponsorships that's pretty that would come up very quickly, I feel like, in order to be able to see what impact that would have on the budget for the rest of this fiscal year.

Um is something that we can we can kind of work out more and bring that back to council if that would be desired.

But it's hard for me to just kind of off the top of my head guess how that would work.

So is it okay if we make that kind of decision next year based on why do we have sponsorship this year?

Seems yeah, so yeah.

So you've I think we can still go forward, but if we don't have sponsorship for any band this year, they might be cut next year.

So understood.

All right.

All right, so thank you so much.

Okay, thank you very much.

All right this evening.

All right.

So let's move on to the last item of our agenda item today is economic development strategy plan development update.

And we have economic development manager Hotter uh and who will be joined by Eco Northwest Project Director Matt Greg to give the update.

Good evening.

Good evening, Mayor, Council, City Management staff.

Uh we are excited to be back here this evening to give you guys an update on where we're at with the economic development strategic plan development project.

We were last here at the end of August and got your nod for moving ahead with the project, understanding the importance of the timing of the project and the considerations that we had with our Cannons timeline and push for getting this entire project done in order to inform our fiscal year 26-27 budget.

With me tonight, I've got Matt Craigie, who is a project uh lead with Eco Northwest.

Last time we we were here, you guys saw Cadence Petro, she was our original project manager.

Uh we wish her well in her new position as the chief of staff for Albinovision Trust.

So Matt is joining us.

Um we've had about five weeks of transition and turnover so far, where we have been working closely with Eco Northwest to make sure that there's been no loss in timing or uh work that has been done or will continue to be done.

Also, I have the privilege of saying I've worked with Matt before when uh I was with Washington County.

Matt was economic development at Washington County prior to joining Eco Northwest.

So very familiar with what is going on in our area, very familiar with the nuance of Washington County West Side and a very skilled economic developer.

With that, we'd like to jump into our presentation.

What we're looking for tonight is uh confirmation, affirmation that we're moving in the right direction.

We had our first workshop for economic development in uh mid-November, and then about a week, uh two weeks after that we had our draft uh first draft of product that we were able to work with all of the program participants and get valuable feedback and do another update before presenting for council packet tonight.

Throughout the evening, we will go through uh a lot of those processes, a lot of what we heard, what we worked through in the workshop, what we work through with our community engagement process.

Uh and so what we have is our draft mission, vision, guiding values, and strategic pillars that we're looking to uh gain consensus and encouragement on as we head into our second workshop, which is uh scheduled for next Thursday.

Next slide.

I think I jump in here.

Yeah, good evening, uh Mayor and Counselors.

Uh great to be with you all uh this evening.

Um, this evening, what we're going to do is we're gonna we're gonna walk through a few things here.

We're gonna talk about the purpose of the project uh real quick, uh, just an overview there.

We'll talk a little bit about the background, uh, we'll talk about some of the engagement with community members and businesses here in Tiger.

Um, and then we're gonna talk about the outputs of the visioning workshop, where uh a group of folks talked about the vision and the mission and the strategic pillars.

We'll talk about what all of those things are uh for the economic development strategic plan.

And then we'll also make sure that we are oriented to the next steps uh and when we'll be coming back to you all.

Next slide, please.

Terrific.

So the purpose of the economic development strategic plan is to clarify what outcomes the city wants to achieve, to align staff, partners, and leadership around unified direction, and to move beyond ideas to specific actions and metrics and actions and metrics are something that we'll be looking at at the next uh workshop.

So that first workshop was vision and mission.

Next slide, please.

Uh so we we've got this great house framework graphic uh that we like to use uh when we're thinking about strategic plans.

Um we have the vision up top there, the North Star, the mission, the strategic pillars, and so the strategic pillars embedded in each one of those are actions and measures that are related to those actions, and then guiding values there as the foundation.

Uh we sometimes use a construction analogy to think about this house of the strategic plan, where the vision is like the architectural rendering of the finished building.

That's what Tigrid would look like in the future.

The mission is like the general contractor's job description, what the economic development team are paid to do and to build it.

The um strategic pillars there in the middle are the structural columns holding the building up.

Um actions and metrics there within the strategic pillar.

Oh yes, okay.

So wonderful awards for the police this evening that we wore through the microphone battery.

So oh, maybe we'll have two here.

Okay.

It's back.

All right.

Um I was talking about the actions and metrics.

I was talking about the actions and metrics.

Those are kind of like the daily punch list blueprint, ensuring that everything goes in the right place.

And then the values there, that foundation piece.

That's like job site safety and conduct rules, how we treat each other, the culture behind the work.

Next slide, please.

So here we're going to be talking about the engagement that Danelle led and the Echo team before I jumped in led, and there was a whole lot of engagement here.

I know Danelle has some examples that she wants to talk about.

I'll point out here we've listed a number of the different uh groups that the team engaged with, and you'll see there on the right that there were six focus groups, a number of interviews in over a hundred surveys that went out to businesses across Tiger.

And I think you said that survey went out to all of the licensed businesses in the city.

Is that right?

Yes, thank you.

Our engagement strategy, as we knew and discussed in August was going to be uh quick, and we really needed to rely heavily on uh active members of our community being able to and trusting their ability to speak on behalf of their industry, their sector, their geographic area, um, whatever they were able to represent as business owners, as uh workforce in Tiger, being able to hear people and ask where people are at.

The online survey was distributed to all licensed businesses within the city of Tiger, inviting them to participate and hear feedback.

Our focus groups were identified based on subsectors so that we could really create trusting, open uh communication and transparent um spaces for people to share their opinions.

The focus groups were led by Echo Northwest without staff present, so that there was no perception of needing to be filtered at all.

And some of the responses we can definitely say thank you to very vocal members because we heard and got very valuable feedback on what we really needed to hear.

Um, the the focus groups were split into groups such as large employers, uh workforce development and training, community-based organizations and partners, neighboring jurisdictions.

So we worked with all of our neighboring cities, the county and metro as one of the focus groups.

We worked with large employers and major industries as another.

We worked with small, we had a focus group specifically for small and medium-sized businesses.

We invited representation and did interview specific one-on-one interviews with our leaders in the chamber and the TDA and other groups that could really speak on and represent a variety of businesses and interests in the within the community.

So the 101 survey responses to online business all came in uh from a variety of the invitation to all the businesses and direct invitation to a couple businesses to follow up, making sure that we had the opportunity to hear from them.

I have a I have a few quotes that I would love to share.

This is a really fun part of the job to go out and talk to folks in the economic development uh ecosystem and hear directly from businesses.

And so just a few that I'll share with you all this evening.

Um so these come, this comes from the survey, these were Tiger businesses responding.

So a few questions here.

There was a question, what is going well for your business in Tiger?

And uh just a few quotes.

So the Tiger community is empathetic and supportive, and local events help me connect with customers.

Someone else said the proximity to 99W, 217, and I5 make it quite easy uh to access our business.

So locational benefit here.

Someone else said, I own my home here, my own business.

I own my business here, and I own a building here, send my kids to school here, and I volunteer in the community.

I love Tiger.

So some positive responses there.

Uh one of the other questions was what is the hardest thing for your business in Tiger?

Uh we heard things like one of the biggest challenges is gaining visibility and promoting my business among Tiger's larger companies and nonprofits, especially as a small home-based women-owned woman-owned business.

Someone else said, my employees' higher cost of living and rent leases.

And another one was uh navigating regulations and leadership changes has made it hard to build relationships.

To the question, what can the city of Tiger do to better support your business?

Someone said streamline processes and visit businesses to observe firsthand observations.

Someone else said more exposure opportunities as well as more knowledge about what is available from the city to create a business here.

We had also a question around workforce training and support and what options there would be most helpful for businesses.

And some of those answers included marketing, technical skills, maintenance techs are hard to recruit, someone said, and connection to high schools and internship advertising.

And one of the things we want to note about the online survey is we are one of many jurisdictions that are undertaking our very first economic development strategic plan.

We're a couple months behind some of our neighboring jurisdictions, and we're a couple months ahead of others.

And one of the things that we really prioritized working with our partners at the county is how do we, Washington County jurisdictions try to create unity among what we're even asking so that we can really look at those answers and responses in relation to each other and share data and share insights.

We were able to receive the City of Beavertons survey that they also distributed to their business population, take the intent of the questions and try to make sure that we were hitting on enough of those data points in similar enough ways that we could look at the survey responses across our jurisdictions.

Because as we know, it doesn't matter to our community.

They don't know the jurisdictional boundary of which side of Schultz Ferry they're on, right?

To them, it's the community is supportive or it isn't.

And so we want to make sure that we're in alignment and both supportive of our neighboring jurisdictions, but also can share that information and learn from each other as well.

Terrific.

I think we're on to the next slide, please.

Great.

So synthesis of the engagement turns into a SWOT.

So strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges.

I'm not gonna go through all of these here.

We have uh a deeper synthesis of it, uh, of course, in some of our deliverables, uh, but I'll highlight that uh each one here just for a second.

So under strengths, uh the stakeholders highlighted the city's strategic location, as you heard in one of those quotes.

Uh regional connectivity and high quality of life under weaknesses.

Um they noted a lack of a formal strategy.

So what's what uh you have undertaken here?

It is noticed in the community.

What's the strategy around economic development?

So this is a very important step.

Uh constrained land supply.

This is something that we hear uh in a number of communities across Oregon, and low awareness of existing city programs.

So an opportunity for some marketing there.

Under opportunities, um, there is excitement around uh possible redevelopment in some key growth areas and enhancing partnerships, um, especially around uh with workforce partners.

And in challenges, um they talked about navigating regional economic uncertainty and competition from pure cities.

Danil, I don't know if there's anything else there that you wanted to mention from the swap.

No.

Okay, next slide, please.

Terrific.

So now we're going to get into the vision, mission, guiding values, and strategic pillars.

And so we're looking for uh your feedback on these uh pieces here.

So on this slide, you can see um some pictures from that first workshop.

Uh you can see how busy folks were putting those stickies up.

We did some kind of individual work, some small group work, and then brought it all back together to come up with all of these different things.

Uh, after the workshop, there was also individual uh engagement with all of the part participants to refine and confirm that what was being put together reflected their voice.

And so it was it was quite the process, and it's a similar process they'll be using with the next uh workshop as well.

To know the workshop participants were uh curated and and pulled together to make sure that we had really wide representation.

Um, workshop participants varied from our city council liaisons.

Thank you for your participation and the million emails that you've gotten from me over the last several months.

Um we had representation from city management office from community development, finance, uh, economic development, parks and recreation.

Uh we also had our partners at Washington County Chamber, TDA, and uh some involvement from our um regional tourism board uh as a proxy in the workshop and an advisor after the fact.

So we wanted to make sure that uh departments within within the city were very well represented, points of view, perspective, and interests were all um being able to be identified and spoken for based on uh the various program participants in the workshop.

Terrific.

Okay, let's get into it here.

In the next four slides, we're gonna review the output of that meeting where we're gonna uh look at the vision, the mission, guiding values and street strategic pillars.

Um so we're looking for the council's confirmation and validation of these concepts acceptability as they reflect uh the city's view and uh for a pathway for the city's economic development program.

So starting with uh the vision.

So Tigered's economic development vision describes the future.

The city is working towards grounded in ideas generated during the city's workshop.

The vision expresses the long-term outcomes the city seeks to create for businesses, workers, and residents.

You'll notice on this slide that there are two vision statements.

Um workshop one preferred that first one, which I'll just read briefly.

It reads Tiger strives to be a place with a vibrant and complete community, known for its economic strengths and quality of place, where strong partnerships and responsive service enable thriving businesses, meaningful career paths, and a resilient economy with enduring opportunity for all.

So I don't know if there's uh anything you want to add there, or if any counselors or mayor have any thoughts or feedback on the vision statement that came out of workshop one.

Uh let me start with this slide first.

Counselor Robin, do you have any thought on the vision statement?

I don't have any suggestions to change it.

I think it's good.

Vision version one.

Um option one.

Uh yeah, I'm trying to compare word by word, but I I think that the first one is good.

All right, Councilor Schlack.

Yeah, I'm not really comfortable with making a choice between option one or option two right now.

I'm I read option one.

I understand, you know, one saying tiger is a vibrant place, and one saying we're striving to be a vibrant place, and so on.

It just feels very I don't know.

When I first read it, I it was a bit hard for me to understand.

It felt very jargony.

So I'd love to try and find a way to break it up and just make it a bit easier to understand because that's just how it comes across to me.

I sort of read it and thought I don't quite know what this means.

And like I piece by piece I can sort of figure it out, but I'm trying to get it into a vision.

And I will guess I was uh um I would like something that's a bit more tangible.

Because I know when we've created vision statements before for the city, some of the feedback we've gotten is it's hard for people to relate to it.

Um so um having gone through the entire workshop process, which was wonderful.

I understand how we got all the components into that statement.

And then I read the statement, I'm just not I'm not there yet.

So that's that's where I'm at.

Okay.

Counselor Pyson Wolf.

Um Thank you, Mayor.

And I um had the opportunity uh to chat um with um in particular our um executive director from the chamber.

And what I appreciate that you've done is really um take into consideration the feedback of where we are economically and where we want to be.

And having said that, I I'm kind of with counselor Schlack.

I because to me, just from a textbook perspective, a vision is what you want to be, period.

Um so we don't want to be strivers.

Um, we want to be a vibrant community.

So I think I wrestle with that, and so I'm gonna leave it to those that are uh much better with words than what I am.

Is I absolutely want to acknowledge the challenges of the economy that we that um in the examples of you know the experience we had through the uh retail holiday season, but that's the piece I wrestle with.

So I'm not saying yes or no, which is not helpful at all.

No, it's very helpful.

But that's what I struggle with is what is the purpose of a vision.

It's to to get that, it's that North Star in my mind of where you want to land, and that's where I wrestle.

But I appreciate the acknowledgement of the challenges.

Council Shaw.

Thank you.

And it was a terrific workshop by two, like Counselor Schlack participated.

Um, and I too think we got everything into option one and then option two.

To me, option two just reads um again to council president Wolf's point, strive versus vibrant.

Uh it also to me seemed like you could put metrics to the vision, and I know that's not often people do in option two, so maybe there's a way we can the next workshop we can come up with a little bit more impactful version of option one and option two.

Counselor Anderson.

Well, to me, it's it's obviously very tigered.

I'd like to see maybe something more of a regional footprint.

So Tigered businesses can compete in Seattle and Medford and Sacramento rather than just small business and tigered.

Um approach those businesses that want to come here and kind of be a little bit bigger players.

I think I prefer option one.

Um, but what I do like about option two is when it says the city builds a resilient economy with opportunities that endure.

Because I feel like the phrasing of and a resilient oper economy with enduring opportunity for all.

I feel like the word endure is not like one that people don't use, but I feel like enduring, I don't see that word really.

Um, and I like the use of the word build.

I think that shows that Tiger is still growing every day.

And I I like that, but I like the rest of option one.

Counselor Guducy.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um of the two, I mean, the first one is a bit aspirational with a striving to be, but it's less you know, declarative and confident.

So if I had to choose between these two only, um, I would probably go for option two.

It's you know, a bit more clear and concise.

Uh and has more of that results-oriented um alignment and verbiage.

Yeah, I agree with a lot of my fellow counselors.

Um I think the worst drive is shouldn't be a vision statement, because as you said, vision statements where we are in the future.

So I don't know why we have to constantly strive to be something we are already something, right?

So I do not like the word strive.

So I for that reason I think I like vision two.

And but again, I also agree with Counselor Schlag.

It's it's it's hard for me to understand that when I read it.

So it should be something I hate to say the word catchy, but something short, get to the point, and um this is just I understand the words individually, but putting them together, it's a lot.

So um I wrote something, but um I'm not sure.

I I like it myself.

It's like we envision a vibrant and complete city known for its economic strength and quality of place where businesses thrive and people find meaningful career paths through responsive services and strong partnerships.

The city supports businesses and workers while building a resilient economy with enduring opportunity.

So I'm not sure I like it, but I think it's better than option one or two right now.

Um, I support counsel president Wolf.

Maybe somebody who is better at work can distill our feedback and come up with a different option.

That is what we're here for is to get that guidance and feedback.

I do want to um bring forward uh a comment that was made uh by one of our participants because it did change what we're bringing forward to you as option one and two.

Um the original vision statement did not include the words drive.

Uh was a as you guys are discussing a little bit more straightforward.

But I want to read this for your consideration.

Uh completely understanding we're not going to get to a consensus tonight, and that's fine.

We'll look for um your feedback to be brought through the council liaisons back uh to us before ahead of workshop number two, so that we can can work through this.

But I I want this on record so that um it is known and that you guys all hear it.

And this is uh as we mentioned after the workshop, uh the drafts got put together and the drafts got sent to all of the workshop participants with a little over a week to provide comments, feedback, um wordsmithing changes, concerns, questions.

So this is this is the curated version from uh all of that feedback.

But one comment we received, it says respectfully we feel it's important that the vision language reflect the current realities facing Tiger's business community.

With multiple business closures announced this week and many local businesses reporting losses and negative performance, particularly along Main Street, there is concern that aspirational language framed in the present tense may not resonate or feel accurate to those experiencing these challenges firsthand.

To ensure alignment and avoid unintended backlash from the local business community, especially small and independently owned businesses.

We recommend framing the vision as a forward-looking way, such as beginning with Tiger strives to become a place where this approach acknowledges current economic headwinds while clearly articulating a shared goal and direction for recovery and growth I understand, but again that I think those kind of statements could be put in some sort of mission or how we're going to get there.

Again, vision statement by definition is where we are already, you know, where we are going.

So if we just keep continuing to strive all the time, I don't it's just as counselor Godussi mentioned, it's just not confident.

And that's I think for me personally, I think that's the purpose of vision statement, something we need.

Something confident.

Go ahead, Councillor Schlack.

Um my comment's slightly different from the the I agree with with the perspective that Danel just shared in terms of making sure that this is grounded in a reality of let's say you know, 2026, this is our starting point for our strategy.

This is where we're starting, and this is our vision from this point on.

Um I think my question is more to the council about with our vision statement.

We're having a lot of discussion about how we're phrasing it.

Is this actually the vision that we want for our community?

Yeah.

Because uh the more I look at it, the more I'm like, I I feel like we're not taking any decisions about what we are and what we are not.

And that's not a a staff or a consultant viewpoint, that's a policy making viewpoint, and that's sort of just the reaction I have when when I read it is it feels like it's very everything to everyone.

One of the thoughts I had um sort of after the workshop is a lot of the things I've heard in the community since we have an election coming up, is that uh Washington County is the engine, economic engine of Oregon effectively.

Well, what's our what's Tiger's place within that engine?

What's we're we're cog, we're part of that machine.

What is our place in it?

And that's the perspective I keep trying to have when answering this question.

What should our economy be?

What do we want this to be in 10 years and 20 years and 30 years?

And that's the sort of like thing I'm struggling to get at with the vision statement.

It's not that all the components, like I understand how we got here, I understand the perspectives, but that's just sort of the problem statement I have, and I'm not that's why I'm not quite convinced by either version yet.

Anyway, thank you.

Yeah, and just add on that.

When you mentioned the strength, I I see geo geographic location, that makes sense.

But another thing that stood out to me when I review previous data is that Huashin County and Tiger, we have a relatively high, highly educated population.

So it's not mentioned in the strength.

So are we going to leverage that?

I I don't know how how we're gonna leverage that.

And we are landlocked, but you know, like land research going to Tuatan, it's not only great for Tuatum, but it's good for Tiger too.

But how are we going to leverage that when we are landlocked, but our neighboring jurisdiction are having those you know successful manufacturing or warehousing?

How are we going to leverage that?

Just to follow on Counselor Schlack's point, it's like what's what's our vision?

So really appreciate that.

The perspective and feedback and saying you you want to know how this goes.

Uh, I would like to offer that those components will uh be on the agenda for workshop number two as we really dig into those strategic pillars, right?

Because as we talked about in August, the intention of this being a three-year plan is because we know we're in highly volatile conditions right now.

This is not a 10-year vision statement.

This is a three-year vision statement, right?

Very intentionally giving us the window of opportunity to take decisive action now to get us in a better place in the next couple of years to do that longer term planning.

So this really is in context, we're we're trying to maintain what is a three-year realistic vision that we can get to.

And then those strategic pillars that we're gonna come to in in a little bit, those are the how, right?

This is this is the direction.

Are we headed in the right direction?

And then the strategic pillars with the actions and the measures on those is the tactical solution of how do we make this happen.

So I think as a package, um, we'll be able to demonstrate that we'll get there.

Uh just it in the vision statement alone.

Um we've got to keep focus of it a three-year is what we're looking for.

Thank you.

Um we we asked a lot of people to spend a lot of time and effort on putting this together.

Um I personally, you know, vision statements, mission statements, a lot of times they are just a lot of gobbledygook, right?

You know, you read it and at the end you're like, okay, what did I just read, right?

And so that's why I'm like, well, I don't know, one or two, you know.

Um I don't mind since this is a three-year vision having the strives, because it it's like that that is who we are right now.

We're not perfect, so we are striving.

Um, I just want to be careful that we don't discount the hard work done by all the people who put this together.

You know, the the number one is the preferred by most participants.

And I think if we just look at it, um, you know, maybe we don't like exactly how it was written or exactly the words, but do we like the components?

Do we like that it's vibrant, complete community, known for its economic strengths and quality of place.

I I don't really know what quality of place means though.

Uh where strong partnerships and responsive services enable thriving businesses.

I like that.

Meaningful career paths, I like that, and a resilient economy with enduring opportunity for all.

All of those components seem fine to me.

So from that standpoint, I think I think we should move forward.

You know, maybe maybe maybe we say no, we want a little bit more wordsmith, but this is a just a it's not engraved in stuff, you know, it's three years, and so just kind of take it and go forward, unless there's a component in here that we don't like.

And also, we have the expert who we're paying here.

Should a mission statement have strives or should it be aspirational?

You know, I mean, right?

What do you guys think?

Terrific conversation.

I think it really comes down to the community.

I think some communities, and I appreciated the uh counselor I didn't catch uh his name online that talked about how one is aspirational and the other one is declarative.

I don't think that there is actually a right answer here.

I think it's to the culture of uh of the city and and what uh what you fits here uh in Tigered.

So I think it could be either.

So we really appreciate this discussion, and um we've got a lot of uh a lot of feedback here that we can work on for wordsmithing it.

Okay, one last point.

One thing I'd like to say is I feel that what we're hearing from participants from the whatever it's called, um are saying that we need some sort of statement that aligns with where we are right now, but I'm also hearing from some counselors that we need to be confident and assertive.

And so I'm wondering if we could use will or will become Tigered will be a place, Tigered will become a place to keep some of that assertiveness and confidence, but also acknowledge where we are at right now.

Go ahead, Council Presson.

Sure, we're just killing your time clock here, Mayor.

Um so all I was gonna say is I actually like the statement of the vision, and I can follow it and visualize how the house gets built, if you will.

Um I do like Mayor who's in vision, because I think what that acknowledges is we do believe that we can become, but we're not there.

And so where the declarative is in the second, I just feel like in visions um it I get more energy from we're gonna get there versus um striving.

And again, I thank you, Danielle, for putting that on the record and being honest about the conversation.

Uh so that's my two cents.

So thank you.

And of course, I'm biased.

I I think that the statement we envision a vibrant and complete city.

I don't think that's arrogant.

I think that's already that's acknowledgement that some acknowledgement that we're not there yet.

We are envisioning this.

So I like it better than strives to be honest.

But move on.

Okay.

Well, thank you, Counselor Shaw.

All right.

So let's move on to the next next point.

Yes, let's move on to the mission here.

So uh really wonderful discussion, really appreciate it.

So Tiger's uh economic development mission defines the purpose of this work and the role the city plays in reaching the vision and supporting a healthy local economy developed through the city's workshop.

The mission reflects why Tiger engages in economic development and the commitments that guide staff and advancing community prosperity.

So you can see the mission statement that came out here.

Uh I'll read this one as well.

Uh the City of Tiger and its partners advance economic and community prosperity by supporting a diverse and resilient business ecosystem delivering accessible and navigable services and aligning partners and city efforts to strengthen Tiger's competitiveness and identity as a viral place to live, invest, and work sounds pretty good.

Any all right.

I don't see Council Godusi raising his hand, sounds good.

Oh, it's quite an easy one.

All right.

Move on.

That's terrific.

Okay, thank you.

And now, next slide, please.

So the strategic pillars.

So Tigers Strategic Pillars outline the core areas where the city will focus its energy in advancing a thriving and resilient local economy, uh rooted in the insights generated during the workshop.

They provide a framework for coordinating action and guide development of specific initiatives and measures in the next phase of the strategy.

So as we had talked about um earlier in the presentation, the next workshop is going to be focused on those actions and metrics which are embedded in the strategic pillars.

So the four strategic pillars here are business attraction support and growth, which is about helping businesses start and grow while connecting workers to training.

Danil talked about the partnership with the city of Beaverton there earlier.

Operations and communication, so strengthening uh the city's internal systems to deliver superior service.

We heard in some of that feedback, if some processes can be streamlined, that would be helpful.

And then also development and placemaking.

So using infrastructure and placemaking to encourage high quality commercial areas.

Any thoughts uh from the counselors about this one?

Any comments feedback for any of them?

I I think number four.

Is number four intended to uh address like uh land use issue or things like that?

So the the sticky notes that that group naturally grouped together to uh get incorporated into the development and placemaking were conversations like wayfinding, like branding, like creating um affinity groups amongst our businesses, creating a greater network of resources for our business owners, especially our young entrepreneurs who are just starting out or smaller businesses.

So it it looks to touch on and support the ancillary activities that go into creating a hub, a community, a place where tigered businesses can be here as well as looking to really put support into our commercial areas by investing in recruitment, by working uh putting the time and energy in our work plans to make sure that we can do things like revitalize uh the office space that is um still ahead of our regional recovery but lagging overall and encourage investment in additional capacities that enable a more vibrant and engaged workforce like child care development centers and uh supporting projects like home, which will is purpose is to open up microenterprise, small business, neighborhood business.

So it looks to create kind of that that and all others category of making sure that it's in the strategic plan to support our investment in the time and opportunity to pursue those activities and opportunities.

Okay.

Well, to me, uh pillar number four just sounds a lot like number one, but thank you for explaining that.

I I just I would recommend just maybe revising pillar four to make it clear that it's about physical presence versus service.

Because number one is all about recruitment already, you know.

But uh unless I hear you wrong, but number four is about infrastructure, right?

So land use.

But anyway, so right now the number one and number four, it just sounds a lot the same to me, but we but anyway, we we we can move on.

No, they thank you for that feedback.

I'm reading them again, going, yeah, that's yes.

Uh so and so we'll be able to go back and look at the the raw data and the notes and be able to further differentiate what those were because when we did the work, the physical work of moving the sticky notes, there was clear separation in those.

And I think just in in some of that words mything, they kind of they kind of naturally uh merged back together more than we might have intended to.

So thank you for calling that out, and we can um gladly go back and re-articulate that one.

And anybody else any comment?

Nope, okay, move on.

Actually, mayor, if I may respond to that as well.

I think um while the pillars all seem like discrete uh columns, right?

There's there's obviously relationships between all of them, right?

So when I look at development and placemaking, uh and then business attraction support and growth.

I think about um uh like a program that I worked on in the past where one of the tools that we had in the toolbox was a storefront improvement grant, right?

A physical thing.

And then we had another program to support professional development for a business.

And so as an economic developer, we're able to come in and kind of speak to a couple of those things.

And so it it's helpful to put things in buckets, right?

As we are here to say, we're we're doing some physical work, we're doing some uh you know, professional training, capacity building.

Um but there's definitely you could start drawing those lines across all of those different groups as well.

Okay.

And the intention uh going into workshop two, where we're looking at the activities and metrics will further clarify what the priorities are within each of these pillars.

And and I believe we'll provide a little bit more of that uh instant understanding of of what each one of them is.

Because again, when we did the sticky note workshop, it there were four very distinct buckets.

So we'll make sure that we preserve those.

Yeah, I I'm just giving you my initial impression.

Thank you.

It's so valuable.

Thank you.

All right.

All right, next.

Terrific.

Okay, we're on to guiding values here.

So the lead in here is uh Tiger's economic development work is guided by core values that reflect how staff shows up for businesses, workers, partners, community and fellow staff.

Uh these express the behaviors and commitments that shape their approach in doing this work.

So we have five up here.

And it doesn't say integrity twice.

Great, we got that uh typo in an earlier one.

Uh thank you for catching that, whoever did.

Um so customer service up there in the top left.

This is about reliable support and consistent follow-through follow-through, excuse me, collaborative uh partnership there in the center.

This is about working constructively with regional partners, uh integrity, and this is acting with honesty and accountability, creative initiative using data-informed guidance and curiosity, and then we have equitable practice of removing barriers to ensure accessible pathways for all.

Any thoughts, uh counselors, about the guiding values well.

I'm I was struggling to find the word responsive or something similar to that.

So maybe accountability accounts as responsive.

I was thinking instead of respectful, we can say re clear, responsive and reliable.

Um but it's just my talking about, sorry.

There's a lot of words up there.

Well, all the I'm following the word response responsive, all any or all of them, but I couldn't find a word responsive.

Um so maybe for the first pillar or the first guiding value, we can say we provide clear, responsive and reliable support.

I I I don't know, it's just my initial thought too.

But I I thought we need to say something that we're responsive to your to your need, right?

So um, but maybe accountability number three cover responsive.

So it's just my initial thought.

I think reliable works too for responsive, you know, if you wanted to change that, but if we're reliable, then we're there helping you when you need it.

You know, if you wanted to change that, but if we're reliable, then we're there helping you when you need it.

So that could work, but I don't have a problem with changing it.

But it's yeah, I so it's just my thoughts.

And I don't see a lot of strong feeling from a council members.

So all right.

So that and and one more thing is just I'm sure you'll fly flush out a little bit more later, but I just don't know what equitable practice mean.

But we can I'm sure you'll flesh it out a little bit more later.

Just be more uh concrete on what that is.

As one of the guiding values, these are these are how we agree to show up to work with each other for each other uh in support of each other for our community.

So there's not gonna be further development of of the guiding values in the next workshop.

This is how we are agreeing and committing to showing up to invest in support and do the work that we're setting out.

The conversation behind uh the guiding valuable value of equitable practice was a really robust conversation amongst the workshop participants in that across the city we speak so much about equity.

It is such a hot topic in national arenas right now, and the city has doubled down on saying it's still important to us.

It came up in the workshop as it's important in this space too to call it what it is.

We need to make sure that we are making decisions and investments with equity in mind.

We also know that in the business community and the business environment, equity looks very different because equity looks like access to opportunity.

We have a wide diversity of businesses in Tigered, and what they need to be able to grow and thrive looks very different, depending on which neighborhood you're looking at, depending on which area you're looking at, depending on alternative funding options and sources.

We have very different opportunities within our two TIFF districts versus outside.

And so being intentional and mindful that we're not just pouring all of our resources, time, energy, and focus into our TIFF districts because they're clearly defined and there's a funding stream and they're easy to access.

But saying, hey, 99W South is just as important of a region to invest in and look at as 99W up on the north side.

So the the workshop participants were very vocal in and advocating for uh equitable practice as one of our guiding values.

Thank you.

You just you just you know flashed out for me.

So yeah, great.

All right, so next terrific.

And this uh brings it all back together somewhat in the uh house graphic that we showed you there, but we wanted to get all the words in there so we couldn't quite get the shapes right.

But um, this is how it fits together, and then again, workshop uh two, which is coming up next week.

Uh we'll be diving into the actions that will fall into each of the strategic pillars and some metrics to um to make sure that we're we're tracking those uh those actions moving forward.

Next slide, please.

And I think we're on to next steps, yeah.

All right, so next steps, uh we do have our workshop number two scheduled for next week, January 15th.

Following that, we've got a series of small group discussions uh among city staff workshop participants scheduled uh to make sure that we can really flush out the details and that what we're identifying can be supported, that it is in alignment with our capabilities, our capacity, our funding, et cetera.

Um so we'll be working through small group uh the following week.

Um after that, Echo will take all of that information and develop the draft plan.

And we look to be back here February 10th with uh the draft plan for you to review, and then we've got our final um well, our next council date scheduled for March 24th, where we'll be looking for adoption.

So it gives uh plenty of time for feedback review, uh, making sure that we have all of those voices, the components, the words that make sense that resonate and that uh can be supported by council.

All right, thank you so much for your hard work and all the community members and counselor shaw and shlack on the council Lia Song, and I think there are some couple more questions or comments.

Go ahead.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'll go quickly.

Um Danelle, the comment that you made, the feedback um is really sticking with me.

And I guess my request, first of all, thank you.

Amazing work.

It all comes together in this amazing package, and I know how much hard work that is.

So thanks to Councillor Shaw and to Councillor Slack and the whole committee for the thought and time that went into it.

I guess what I um am eager to see and look forward to is within the actions and the measures, how do we really put energy towards those comments?

So, what are those steps that we're investing resource and time and energy in to do a course correction?

Because that's where I feel like we get a kick of how we hear you, and this is how we're lining up our actions to support that change that then envisions the city that we um want to be, expect to be.

So that's my plug.

Yeah, that's great, counselor.

Thank you.

I'll make my quick as well.

Um, wondering if we just should uh continue to highlight that's a three years, maybe economic development three-year strategic plan, just so people don't think yeah, gosh, they're falling short.

We're looking 10, 15 years, and this is what is this?

So let's just it's a good idea to just make it clear.

It's three year plans.

Anything else?

All right, thank you again for all the hard work you're doing.

So uh we look forward to the next update.

So thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thanks for your time tonight uh and participation throughout the process and continued support.

Um, Council President, I too am looking forward to those strategic pillars, as that's my team's work plan.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And there being no additional items, this meetings adjourned.

Good night, Tiger.