We already even everyone.

I'll call this a City Council workshop and town center development agency meeting to order.

And uh before I start, don't I just want to acknowledge that today is the beginning of the lunar U year, uh, which is also the year of the horse.

So I just want to wish all the committee members who celebrate a very happy, healthy, and prosperous uh lunar new year ahead.

And the you know, horse means a lot of things, but one of them is uh exciting and moving ahead with new things.

So uh that's how we will do that also in the city of Tiger this year.

So with that, I will ask uh Deputy City Recorder Bartholomew to conduct a roll call, please.

Councillor Robins.

Here.

Councillor Schlag.

Here.

Councillor Shaw.

Here.

Council President Wolf.

Here.

Councillor Anderson.

Here.

Councillor Gaducy.

Present.

Youth Councilor Halleck?

Here.

Mayor Who?

Here.

Uh well, everybody please stand there.

Uh join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Thank you, everyone.

Uh City team and city councilor.

Do you have any now agenda item?

None from us, Mayor.

Uh seeing none from everybody, let's move on to public comments.

Public comment periods provides an opportunity for members of the public to address the city council.

While it is not dialogue, either I or a staff member will follow up to address the issues brought forward in these comments.

Uh the calling number for public comments 503-966-4101.

And those wishing to comment should call now to get into the queue.

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

Uh by noon of today, uh, well, oh yesterday, uh, we have received no written comments.

So that's move on to in-person comment.

Umbody sign up.

So anybody who want to testify but haven't signed up?

Okay, none.

Let's move on to video or phone common.

Uh, Mr.

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

No callers.

Uh, thank you, Mr.

Vaughn.

So let's move on to community updates.

Uh, the first person I will invite up uh is uh Becca Kosravani for the Tiger High School Envoy update.

Good evening, Becca.

Hello.

Um, thank you very much for having me.

It's been a wonderful month as we've begun to kick off the second semester.

Um, this week, the Stop Underage Drinking and Drugs Club or STUD is putting on a kindness themed week.

And the human rights random acts of kindness committee in leadership class is planning Unity Week, which will take place next week.

Um, throughout the course of the week, there will be several several events.

Um there will also be different workshops, and they will be integrated into the course of the week, all following the theme of perseverance.

Um, there will be a voices assembly, and the voices assembly is an opportunity for students to willingly share personal and potentially vulnerable stories with the student body, and they may do so anonymously or choose to reveal themselves.

Um students audition for this opportunity to share experiences through a panel, which will be land read by student leadership advisory committee leaders and teachers, and prior to giving their speech, they will be thoroughly supported.

There will also be a multicultural assembly, which will feature performances from various affinity and alliance groups, and for many many groups.

This may include the opportunity for the crowd to engage in dances or other performances.

Additionally, we are hosting uh the prom dance, which will take place at some point in May, and students have voted for a theme on that.

Um we also were able to host the second club fair of the year recently.

In terms of athletics, the swim team wrapped up their season with a district meet on Saturday.

Our dance team hosted a competition at home on Saturday.

Unified basketball will honor their seniors on the 24th of this month.

They're also selling apparel available through their custom in the website, and I encourage you all to um go look at that if you would like to.

The chair team finished our competition season at the OSAA state competition on Friday, and the basketball team played at Oregon City with girls on the 9th and boys on the 10th.

The ski team will also have their last race next weekend.

And additionally, the third annual women in sports symposium was held on February 6th, and four alumni athletes were invited to speak at that panel.

The blood drive executed by the National Honor Society on February 10th went extremely well with about 80 donors, um, which is great turnout for that event.

And I believe that sums it up for the last week.

Thank you very much for having me.

Thank you, Becca.

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

Oh thank you, Becca, for coming.

Um did the I I just have a quick question because I had called and asked, I thought prom was May 2nd.

Has that changed?

Um I believe it should be May 2nd.

Um they're still working out the details on, but the location and the date are finalized.

Um I know that it's going to be held at the Oregon Zoo this year.

Oh, how exciting.

Okay.

Thank you.

Yeah, absolutely.

And I look forward to hearing more about the event next week with people sharing.

I know that that can be a very difficult um and courageous thing for the students to go up and talk to the whole school about things that they've gone through.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

Seeing none, thank you so much, but next month.

All right.

So next uh up next item on agenda is uh Tegra Police Department report and our Chief McDonald will join us virtually to present the re uh police dashboard.

Good evening, Chief.

Good evening, Mayor and members of council.

Uh Jamie McDonald, your police chief.

And um excuse me.

I wanted to hit a couple of of uh topics, one of which we discussed last month, which was dispatched calls for service.

And um I mentioned that we had tracked where we had seven straight months above two thousand.

And I wanted to bring this uh slide to your attention this month, because uh it has a direct correlation to our ability to be able to respond in a timely manner.

So as you can see, last year we did exceed uh 2,000 calls for service in the month of January.

And uh just for reference, this is these are January calls for service uh starting in 2022 through this current year.

Same with the dispatched uh or the priority one and two call response times.

And I just thought this graphic was uh pretty telling.

It shows that when we have uh lower calls for service, dispatched calls for service.

So those are the ones coming in from the community that we actually have a faster response time, which would tend to make sense, right?

We don't have we aren't quite as busy.

The other officers aren't uh as tied up, and so they're able to respond quicker.

And I thought it was interesting if you note 2022 versus 2026, very similar in both the calls for certain dispatch calls for service and the priority one and two uh call response times.

So I thought that was an interesting thing to show because it does show that our calls for service have a direct relationship with uh our ability to be able to respond in a timely manner to those priority one and two calls.

And then the next slide, please.

I just wanted to hit some of the uh things in our community snapshot.

I think it's important to talk about the things that we're doing as a as a department and uh cover some of those events.

We've done all types of things, like just from regular meetings to good morning tigered.

We did a chat with the chief last month, uh, coffee with a cop, cocoa with the cop.

So a variety of different things, and then as you can see, different things that we've already started in this month and will continue to do in the coming months.

But just showing you that we do have quite a few uh different events that are on the calendar that we continue to uh participate in, and uh we stay pretty busy with all of those things.

Uh and I'll give a prop to Maddie Bauer, our community engagement uh program coordinator, who she actually coordinates all of these.

She makes it to a lot of them, but uh uh she leans on the rest of us to help make sure that they get those done.

And uh we uh will kick off our community academy at the end of this month uh on the 27th, and that's pretty exciting.

That's always a fun opportunity for uh community members to get to be in that.

We've got over 30 community members uh signed up for this year.

I believe there's a counselor on there as well.

So um it we're really looking forward to that.

Should be a lot of fun.

It filled up in record time this year.

I think it took about six days that it was open and it was completely full.

So uh that's all I have uh for this month.

I'd be happy to to take any questions that you might have.

Sorry, Chief.

My mic was off.

Any so I don't see I don't see any questions, but I I do have one.

Uh we just received the the latest uh deflection report from the county, and what I read I was really surprised uh, you know, uh the the initial couple months, the numbers pretty low, and then it just shooed up on there.

So um, do you have any comments about that deflection report?

What's your observation so far?

Yeah, I think uh for Tiger, especially one of the things that it took a little time to get trained and get people kind of going and headed in the right direction.

So it was it was a little bit of a I guess kind of an uh uptake to get going with it.

So it was probably just kind of a slow start, is really what it was.

But now we're in fact I saw in one of our recaps night before last that we did two uh deflection referrals.

So they they do continue.

And they then they I think it's it took a familiarity.

We had quite a few officers that started when ballot measure 110 was in play, and it really it really limited our our ability to uh to train them how to do uh do those types of cases.

And so really it took training them to what to look for for narcotics and how to get back into doing those types of cases.

So we're doing a lot better now, and uh we're starting to see some of those successes out of the program as you can tell from the recap.

Yeah.

Glad to hear.

Yeah.

All right.

Seeing none uh no question from counselor, so thank you for your report, Chief.

Have a good evening.

Thank you, you as well.

All right.

Uh next uh oh, I almost skipped the liaison reports.

So that's uh let's move on to the council liaison report.

Uh so counselors um will report on our board and committee assignment activities since our last uh workshop meeting.

So who would like to who would like to volunteer to start okay, Counselor Schlack, please go ahead.

Thank you, Mayor.

I uh attended uh four meetings since our last update uh on January 21st.

I attended my first meeting of the community homelessness assessment and response team or chart.

Uh the team received a presentation on the building a better tiger project, discussed last year's successes and next year's opportunities, and noted that chart may evolve into a new structure, which will be proposed later during the board and uh boards and committees discussion tonight.

On January 26th, I attended a meeting of the planning commission.

The commission unanimously forwarded a recommendation of approval to the city council for application CMA 2025-003 slash SLR 2025-002 for the Hall Boulevard Pedestrian Crossing Project.

This project removes goal five safe harbor protection for 127 square feet of significant wetland vegetative corridor in order to replace an existing pedestrian crossing for the Fano Creek Trail.

It also requests a sensitive lands review for impacts to the FEMA floodway.

On February 2nd, I attended another meeting of the planning commission.

The commission unanimously forwarded a recommendation of approval to the city council for application CMA 2025-002 for the Steve Street Park Project.

This project removes 0.03 acres of Gulf 5 Safe Harbor Wetland Protection to build a pathway from Southwest Steve Street to Steve Street Park.

And on February 10th, I chaired a meeting of the Willamette River Water Coalition.

The board adopted the fiscal year 2027 annual work plan and budget.

Total appropriations were reduced from 162,250 to 92,785.

And Tiger's fiscal year 2027 dues are set at 21,747, which is a reduction from last year.

Those are my updates.

Thank you, Counselor Schlack.

Council President Wolf, would you like to go next?

Thank you, Mayor.

Um yeah, um I'll start uh first I want to acknowledge uh counselor Robbins.

Um I had um a conflict with another board, and she covered um uh with for me, so I'll just have her give that update when she gets her um uh activity for the month.

Um 26th was the voices panel, which is the community-based group giving feedback on uh the proposed fill facilities in the bond measure.

Um 26 was the voices panel, which is the community-based group giving feedback on uh the proposed facilities and the um bond measure, and that focus um on the 26th was really getting feedback from the community members, what they're hearing, um, anything that we need to be aware of.

And I think the theme continues with the communication and awareness that we just have to continue to really get out there and inform um our voters about the um the importance of this bond and and what it will accomplish for the city.

Um let's see, I attended um for WEA.

Actually, their board meeting is this week, but I attended the uh land use um committee presentation where Mayor Tim Rosner um talked about the voter approved charter amendment and industrial land use.

So that was um an interesting thing to, and I think I provided you all with the slides for that if you were interested.

Um TDA.

Um I attended that.

That is something that uh the um downtown alliance has asked us to rotate through.

Counselor Shack will Slack will be there.

Um I think let me try a third time Schlag will be there in March.

Um Jessica Love presented on the bond and the proposed facilities at that meeting, and they also elected uh Bethany Flug as their next next president of the board.

Um really good conversation around the facilities and uh price points and again education polling.

Uh so just really appreciate the thoughtfulness in that.

And I think that's good enough for me.

So thank you, Mayor.

All right, thank you, Councilor Parson Wolf.

Uh Counselor Shaw, are you ready to go next?

I am Mayor, thank you.

Uh I attended four meetings as well.

The my first Lake Aswega joint water partnership oversight committee with Councillor Robbins.

Uh so I know she's more of a veteran on this than I am, but it was a meeting in which we chose our chair and vice chair and received a report regarding operations in the budget from staff.

And that was on January 26th.

Also, uh the Town Center Advisory Commission, which will also be hearing from tonight.

That meeting was held on February the 11th.

And um, I won't go into detail and steal some of their thunder.

It sounds like I may have an echo.

So, Mayor, I don't know if your mic is on or not.

If not, maybe okay, I would turn it off to see if you can.

Okay.

Perfect.

Thank you so much, Mayor.

Um, also then I attended on February 9th, the Urban Renewal Funding Selection Subcommittee.

Uh, in that meeting, we also approved one applicant, um, which will be coming to the City of Tiger Flawful Express.

And uh very excited that we'll have another restaurant here in Tiger and happy to share some additional details.

Uh we also I also attended um the Washington County Public Affairs Board, which um soon Councillor Anderson will be taking over, and we discussed CDBG, home and ESG, and in particular and important to Tiger Families Promise received $35,000 for year one as well as $35,000 for the following year.

In addition, the Good Neighbor Center will receive $230,000 for new bathroom and bathroom facility realignment and upgrades.

And the City of Tigerd for its home ownership grants program received 136,000.

Uh and then of note, um, BN Star will assist with housing stability for low-income runners who need rental assistance.

Uh, since we know some of those programs have been cut.

Um that oh there's also a request for proclamations for the national community development week and for housing month.

And uh look forward to uh working with counselor anderson as we transfer over PAD to him.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Councillor Shaw, Councillor Kozussian.

Thank you, Mayor.

I too would like to thank Councilor Robbins for covering one of my uh meetings this week.

She went to the Prab for me, so thank you.

Um in terms of the library board, one of the big things was that they moved over here to City Hall.

Of course, that's active as of right now.

It's a Friday through Sunday with the limited services.

They're trying to continue all the services that they can, but one of the big things is they do recommend picking up holds in other locations.

Um with the water advisory board, uh, the main discussions, of course, Mayor who you came to discuss with the water advisory board.

Um we had a discussion of the adoption of Kingston Terrace addendum for the water systems plan.

Uh the adoption of the fiscal year 27 water division operations budget and the 27th through 31 water sip budget.

Uh, had the election of the chair and discussion about code of conduct.

Counselor Anderson.

Thank you, Mayor.

I attended the uh regional water providers consortium.

Um we voted on this year's budget, and the upshot of that is that it will be a little less this year for Tiger uh than last year due to uh some one-time carryovers, not just for Tiger, but for the all the cities.

Uh we had presentations on new infrastructure around the area related to water resilient product uh projects.

Uh of course the one that affects Tiger the most is the Willamette Water Pipe Project, which is now 99% done.

Um that project started in 2016, 30 miles of pipe under the Twalton River through parts of Tiger, and it ends up in Beaverton.

Pretty amazing.

1.8 million dollars.

And uh it'll be operational uh this month.

So um that was a that was a big celebration.

Um I was also on the Urban Renewal uh Tiger Triangle uh committee, and we did approve that application for the small business, the falafel restaurant.

Wish him well.

Um and the CCE group, we got an update on the bond measure from Kelsey Anderson, and that's a good group, and we'll meet tomorrow evening.

That's it.

Thank you.

Youth Councilor Helleck.

So I believe since the last meeting we have or the last workshop meeting.

We've had two new members welcomed, um, both at Tuality Middle School, which, if I'm not mistaken, are our only middle schoolers on TIAC right now, which is great.

So on the second, we had a long meeting to discuss our goals for the year, eventually landing on wanting to work on like AI education for residents and to organize a presentation of ideas of what to do with the old cinema lot.

And we're also planning another movie night at Family Promise over the TTSD spring break, because our first one was really great, and they want us back.

And that is all we have right now.

Thank you.

Counselor Robbins.

Thank you.

Um I did go to the Willamette Intake Facilities or WIF commission board meeting.

Um since it was the first meeting of the year, they elected their chair and vice chair and they kind of cycle through all the members, and so this year um the Tualeton Valley Water District Um designate is the chair and Sherwood is vice chair, and they just kind of cycle through the five.

Um one of the main things we discussed at the meeting is that the WIF curtailment plan was approved as required by the IGA, and that just because the WIF has a curtailment plan, all the individual members also have to have a curtailment plans.

Um then I was lucky enough to get to go to the parks and rec advisory board.

That was kind of cool to see.

Um mostly we talked about the budget and concerns about budget shortfall because the parks and trails are funded by the general fund and then the also the that parks fee.

Um and there was a concern that um if we cut too much in services to try to save money, that then we'll just get behind on maintenance and that we need to keep up the maintenance.

And so there was um some discussion about that.

Um I went with um Counselor Shaw to the Lake Oswego Tiger Water Partnership, and I just wanted to um add that this year Lake Oswego is chair and Tiger I'll be vice chair since I'm the more experienced member, and that um I'm excited that our next meeting is planned for a tour of the water treatment plant, and I haven't gotten to go there yet, so that'll be good.

The chlorine generation trial is going well, it's still ongoing.

Um I also attended the February Library Board meeting, so we'll talk about two of them because um I got nice notes from them that of course Mayor who you attended the board meeting, which um he's kind of going around to all of them, so that was that was well received.

And then um they opened up a little portable uh library here for once a week, and um it's been a lot of work moving um everything.

But some highlights are that 276 73 people visited the express library in the first three days it was available.

Sixty children and grown-ups attended story time, and that 22 people attended the program ducks of the Pacific Northwest.

So that was considered a very successful presentation, and so maybe we'll have some more waterfowl presentations.

Um, and then in addition, I've gone to the regional immigration regional call, and then Councillor Gaducy and I attended the business owners immigration concerns discussion at Senate, and that was very enlightening Thank you, Council Robbins.

Thank you, Council Robbins.

Yeah, for me, as you mentioned, I I've completed my drop-in visit with all the board and commissions.

The only board and commission that I haven't had a chance to visit yet as a mayor is the audit committee.

Okay.

Also continue to attend regional meetings and continue to meet in with state regional partners to advocate on behalf of for cities priority across transportation, housing, economic development, and a variety of issues.

And thank to our city's professional teams who have been very responsive to my requests.

Whenever I have a question about certain issues, they got back to me right away.

So that's very helpful for me to be able to advocate on behalf of the city.

So just two quick notes of two meetings I went to.

So WCCC, which is Washington County Coordinate Coordinate Coordinating Commission.

They approved the city's request for a $900,000 matching grant for the county's misstep opportunity fund.

It is it will be served as a local match for $6 million Metro Large Scale Community Vision Grant for the construction of the Ash Creek Trail, which is a 2400-foot ADA accessible multi-use trail connecting neighborhoods, park, school, transit, and Washington Square through a restore wetland corridor.

Then 900,000 uh local match grant from the county, which which were approved, which was approved, will also have unlocked another 14.3 million dollar uh grant from clean water services.

So that's a very helpful matching grant from the county uh to help us unlock you know 20 20 odd million dollars.

Um another uh interesting meeting I went to was the Tuatan Chambers uh key leadership presentation with the state's chief economist uh just a couple of weeks ago.

Um that was the day after he releases is his uh economic uh uh outlook.

And he's uh he's according to his outlook uh the revenue forecast for the state is not as bad as concerning um previously, uh, but it is still not particularly strong.

So we'll still have to the state still has to cut.

Um but um another interesting point he mentions that the housing production level in the state is no matter what the governance policy is, the housing production level is unlikely to improve significantly in the near term due to slower economic growth and mortgage rate that are not expected to decline any time soon.

And he also bring one last point about tariff and federal physical uh because um uh as you all know that the Supreme Court's uh ruling on uh the executive branch's power to um you know um put forward tariff is is coming up soon.

And he just mentioned that uh currently the TAF tariff is actually paying for 70 percent of the deficit generated by HR 1, or somebody may call it the big beautiful bill.

So the big bank the HR one actually created a huge deficit, and none of it is being paid for by the bill.

So the Fed tariff is paying 75% of that.

So the Supreme Court were to take away the tariff, our interest rate will actually have to increase dramatically because that means the US Treasury will have to start issuing um uh notes to finance the deficit.

That means our interest rate will go up.

So um, you know, uh I think that uh uh chief uh state economist is pretty nonpartisan.

He just lay out all the facts for us to decide.

So it's it's a very interesting uh presentation.

So that's all I have.

Um any questions or comments by any counselor for another council member.

All right, seeing none, let's move on to uh next item on the agenda.

Let's convene to as a town center development agency for our next item because we're gonna have a joint meeting with the town center advisory commission.

So I would like to invite members of the TCAC to the table and the presenters.

Uh would you please uh when you have a chance to sit down, please introduce yourself.

Good evening, Chair Who and the directors of the Town Center Development Agency Board.

Um tonight is the joint TCDA board town center advisory commission meeting held annually.

And uh next slide.

Uh so the agenda, I'll have a few brief remarks, do introductions of the town TCAC.

Uh we have seven members attending in person tonight and one member online.

Um I'll turn it over to the uh members of the commission.

They'll go through the uh annual report.

And there's uh draft strategic plan for uh 25-26.

And uh looking for TCDA feedback on the uh report and their strategic plan.

Next slide, please.

So just for people who might be watching at home, just to review uh what the charge of the town center advisory commission is.

They advise the TCDA board on TIFF plan policy, budget, and implementation.

They're one of Tiger's 12 boards and commissions.

Members are appointed by city council.

Uh monthly hybrid meetings held second Wednesday of the month at town hall.

Uh they accept uh public input and comment.

And uh City Council liaison is council Councillor Jet Shaw and alternate liaison Councillor Jake Schlack.

I'll turn it over to the chair of the TCAC, Gabe Vlasquez.

Hi.

My name is Gabriel Vlasquez uh for the record.

Uh nice to meet all you.

Can we go to the next slide?

I think we have names of everyone else there.

Thank you.

Uh I just want to say thank you all for having us, and I really do appreciate it.

I'll just go around the table and introduce everyone if you guys want to say hi.

Uh Bob, I'll start with you because you're next up.

Hi, Bob Damasovich with uh the vice chair.

Uh Ben?

Patty Lofgren, just town center advisory commission member.

John Goodhouse Sarah Serrata.

And I'm Ben Coley.

Chris.

Um Chris Line.

And I believe Michelle Powers is online, is that correct?

Hello, yes, I'm here.

Hi, Michelle.

All right.

Next slide, please.

Well, that's us uh with the uh TAC with the joint tour that was done in uh August of last year.

Uh a few of you were there.

So I just want to tell you that was a wonderful tour together, and we just got to see some of our good work being done.

Uh next slide.

All right, I'm not gonna read that word for word, so I will let you absorb that, as that is a lot of words on one slide.

Um just want to mention a few things that we were focusing on when we were discussing the changes for the areas of emphasis.

Primarily we focused a lot on the word underrepresented in the equitable business and development.

We're trying to workshop award to find one to find a uh unmet business need in the area.

That's what we were trying to do.

There was a technical term, Sean, that you had.

Do you remember what that was?

It's a retail leakage.

A retail leakage.

But we thought underrepresented business uh opportunities might sound a little bit better and roll off tongue.

Um we added parks to our connectivity and access.

That was the main part because parks have been a major centerpiece in both the town center as well as the Tiger Triangle.

There's a lot of trails go through there, and that's where a lot of bus stops and planning are coming around, essentially without the parks.

A lot of this connectivity falls apart, so we want to add that and include that in our area.

For housing and shelter, there wasn't a whole lot amended there, just more modernizing uh the language.

We're expanding it to make sure that we understand that affordable housing is important, but overall we need just housing in general, as we need to have some sort of market force to be pushing uh prices down and having more supply reduces the demand a little bit.

Next slide, please.

So here are some of our accomplishments.

I will lead it with uh Chris and John to begin with uh equitable business.

Um so one of our our uh you know biggest biggest liaison things that we do in the TCAC uh is work with the town's uh the TDA group, um which I am also in the same position on.

Uh I handle um economic development uh issues for the TDA.

Uh so it's just my right hand and my left hand talking to each other like little puppets, and it's very entertaining for me.

Um so those those meetings end up um mostly being me, you know, kind of running around talking to um business owners and gauging interest in particular spaces and talking to building owners and trying to get uh those two groups of people together to uh widen our net for bringing new types of businesses to downtown Tiger.

Um I'm also on the improvement grant committee.

Uh so we talked to businesses that are looking for you know matching grant funding.

I think we've um done a pretty solid job in the last year or two um getting people into that program, getting them through that program, making sure that you know uh the paperwork is being filled out and and grants are actually getting filled.

Um we don't have a hundred percent success rate on all of that.

Um some people that are granted funds don't end up actually taking those funds.

Um I think the the success of the program though, like it feels like it's moving in the right direction where we're able to fund uh some businesses that otherwise maybe we wouldn't be able to do it on their own.

Um so that that's felt like a like a significant improvement, especially from from when I started in 2020 or so.

Um the parking data uh was an interesting long-term project that um I personally felt needed to happen.

You know, there were plenty of people that that didn't necessarily want to put money into that, um, but it didn't feel like any of that research was actually gonna get done unless we actually you know had the council approve uh money being spent and and do the work.

Um and what came out of that is that things are generally okay.

We're gonna make some you know amendments to to times um and and some zones are gonna get moved around a little bit, but overall does not seem to be that we need to have you know full-time uh parking enforcement.

So that's it's actually just a you know it's a good good data point to be able to move forward from with actual, you know, not a point in time, but you know, quite a bit of data collected over several months.

Um and then there were two new people added to the launch pod.

We had a group of small business owners and members of the of the committee uh interview, um, you know, potential applicants for that um and talk through, eat some food.

Um, and and we picked a couple of people.

Um and so far the reviews are very good.

I think everyone's doing well and it's driving traffic at Universal Plaza.

Next slide, please.

Next slide, please.

John, I'll have you take that um so the moving forward, we're looking at advocacy and support for uh business owners in the TIFF district, um, monitoring the park and management and also planning for the uh unrepresented business opportunities.

Um I know we've had some kind conversations with with that too, as well as you know, how we can maybe do that and support businesses, um some of the businesses we want to look at bringing in and parking is a big issue.

So it is you know, I think my personal opinion it was good that the park enforcement didn't go in place at least in downtown Tiger.

I think that would have been um backsliding on getting people to downtown.

Um I think we only have two slides on this.

Yeah.

So I don't know if the council wants to category by category ask any questions or follow-up on those, or rather than at the end.

Um do you have any question, Councilmember right now?

No, see no.

So please continue.

Thank you.

Okay.

Next slide, please.

So connectivity and access.

I think Gabe already covered uh probably the the key changes uh looking at how we can incorporate parks into that.

Um particularly with uh the uh cinema redevelopment uh 72nd Avenue.

That's gonna be very significant for connectivity and access.

Uh I think the the other key change here uh looking at uh the the next slide because it's yeah, there you go.

Okay, thanks.

Thanks, Sean.

Okay.

Uh continuing to look at uh development of 72nd Avenue.

Uh we just completed uh uh a draft letter that's gonna go out shortly to Secretary Duffy, the U.S.

Department of U transportation requesting uh building 2026 funding for phase one of 72nd Avenue.

Uh when we toured uh that particular street is pretty obvious that it's gonna be uh significant project.

It's gonna last a long time and we really need to get started on it.

The um I think uh any questions.

Questions?

I actually do have one personal thing to add to this, and this happened as of today on my commute back home.

Uh there was a lady who was trying to figure out the best way to get to Winco from the bus stop, which drops you off at Fred Meyer.

And she was trying to figure out with her dog the best way to get across there, and as you know, 72nd has no sidewalk, so she was trying to figure out which way would be better for safety and risk and stuff like that.

We talked through that and figure out the best way for her to get across.

She chose ultimately going on 72nd, but being well into like the bush in there because they've been trimmed back a little bit because of construction.

But I just wanted to share that with you that like this is a real problem that like this is why we're advocating for that.

That's really important.

So uh next slide, please.

Patty, I'll have you take this.

Yes.

So um these are the accomplishments this last year in terms of housing and shelter.

Um, most significant are the the four that we have.

Um in particular the first three.

Um the remodel uh renovation of just compassion.

Um we were able to tour it uh the grand opening, and um they've added 30 beds for men and 30 beds for women, a brand new kitchen and a dining area that's absolutely massive.

Um just with with assistance, of course, development assistance.

Um it is it significantly different and it's allowed the staff at just compassion to be working with the community in ways that they were not able to in the past.

So that has been a significant change in terms of um uh supporting folks who are homeless in our community.

Um family promise a bridge to home.

I and probably many of you um uh were at the grand opening, the ribbon cutting, um, those renovations there.

I've been working there since they opened four years ago, and significant uh changes in terms of the brand new kitchen, the dining area, the rooms for um Coco Club for the kids to be uh tutored, um other rooms for community engagement.

Um that was just it's it's just beautiful.

Um the changes that have happened there, also funded.

And then um the reach, the grand opening of their Dartmouth uh crossing um with the brand new um affordable housing units there.

Um just a very lovely new facility.

And um so and then uh the uh community partners for affordable housing have begun their construction um with our developmental assistance, and that program is is happening then.

And then uh I particularly as a TCAC member of um been attending chart mem meetings on a regular basis and bringing information back to the uh to the team after those meetings.

Any questions?

Nope.

Next slide, please.

All right.

So now looking forward, we've had a lot of momentum going into this that we just want to carry on.

Um specifically, we're identifying liaisons to attend regular housing and homelessness uh stakeholder meetings.

So we think of CEPA, we think of chart, those agencies and organizations that want to help us grow and improve in the Tiger Triangle in downtown as well as other areas nearby.

It's always welcome.

Uh we also like to monitor the data obtained by the city um essentially to grow our collaborative partnerships so we have even more people to reach out to and work with.

The essentially partnerships is what has moved the needle a lot with comes to affordable housing and just housing in general.

So having more of those allies is gonna be great for us.

And then next is consider uh providing development assistance to for affordable housing even more so.

That's been one thing that we've been harping on because it's essentially right now with construction slowing down development.

This is kind of the one time where people might be a little bit more willing to move the needle and with certain uh prices getting lower, Dallas certain prices are rising.

It might be an opportune uh time for us to take advantage of that.

Um and you can read the aspirational goal above there.

Do you have any questions on this slide?

Go ahead, Consular President Wolf.

Um so Gabe, thanks for that.

And um just as I feel like I'm I'm a constant learner about funds.

Um when um you make the recommendation around the development assistance.

Is that all within the realm that you would direct or it's in in partnership with city dollars?

Sometimes I just try to make sure I understand the movement of dollars.

Thank you.

We are essentially just trying to see if there is any left over for anything that's unaccounted for to go for that.

I know currently the economy is not in the best place right now.

So we'll always say we would like more, but that's just more what we've noticed, and that's what has improved the lives a lot.

It's not that we demand so and we're forcing your hand here.

It's more just politely asking.

Next slide.

That was it.

Oh, thank you so much for your presentation.

Uh just to follow up on your comment about 72nd, the council just passed the resolution in support of the grant federal grant for the 72nd uh construction last week.

And we are at 30 percent design right now, and this the city's been trying for federal grant every year for three years in a row.

So uh it is a high priority on the city's list.

So uh we do understand it's very important, but we really appreciate all your continuing advocacy on behalf of this really important project.

Thank you.

I was here for that when you did that, so thank you again.

Yeah.

So uh councillor Schlag commons questions.

Uh thank you, Mary.

Yes, I just wanted to I don't have any specific questions about what was presented, but um I know um I'm sure Councillor Shaw will want to also speak to this.

Um we've had some sort of discussions about what we want to see from the TCAC moving forward.

And I think in general, what would be helpful from a TCD for the TCAC would be for the TCDA board for the council to provide a bit more policy specific policy direction on what strategic goals we would like to see for the TIFF districts so that way you all can provide advice and recommendations in relation to those.

Um, you know, I think um and I think that's starts with us.

The ball would be in our court to start providing that direction.

But looking at your strategic plan, which has a lot of great goals.

I know personally I'd like to see it align a bit more or focus a bit more on economic development in that lens.

And in particular, I'd love to see those um you all review the strategic plans that we have either adopted or will be adopting uh related to economic development.

Um take a look at those, look at your strategic plan, and try and bring them a bit more into alignment with those policy directives that the council is setting.

So what comes to mind is um we have council goal two, of course, which is elevate economic opportunities, and from that we've adopted a transit logic tax strategic plan, and we are will be considering adoption of an economic strategic development strategic plan for the entire city.

Of course, your purview is just the TIFF districts, but I think the TIFF districts are two of the most important tools that we have in terms of stimulating the local economy in Tiger.

I mean, if downtown Tiger is thriving, then it's then the rest of Tigert is thriving in my opinion.

So that's where I'm coming from there.

I'd love to see um this strategic plan based on what your feedback is in the community, how you can align it a bit more with some of those um policy directives that the council has already set or will be setting.

Um I that's the main thing I'd like to see.

Additionally, I'd love to see uh a bit more involvement with and partnership.

I know we have some with um the Tiger Downtown Alliance, but uh with the TDA and also with the Chamber of Commerce, um, just based on um my attendance of those meetings for the last year.

So those are just some general feedback that I'd love to put out there.

And um, Counselor Shaw, I'd love to hear some of your additional thoughts as well.

Yeah, thank you.

Director Schlack.

Director Shaw.

Please go ahead.

Um Thank you.

Um yes, and in DS I want to repeat uh what Director Schlack had mentioned, but I just wanted to thank uh TCAC for the strategic plan and the work that you did.

Um I think it's been very helpful.

And as the council develops um its economic development strategic plan, and thank you to my fellow counselors for adding goal to to really elevate economic development.

I think we'll be working more hand in hand and um help enhance both the TIFP district but also the economic development plan that um the council will be passing hopefully here soon, as well as working to ensure that the TLT and home and made really again is um a concerted policy that we can help provide direction to um TCAC and so that we are making sure that the city's moving uh in alignment together with those partnerships, uh, whether it be the chamber or TDA.

So look forward to that.

And once we do have that uh strategic plan that's been um passed, uh love to get back together with TCAC just to um provide that policy direction, get more in alignment and further hone in on some of the specifics with regards to TIFF.

So with that, I won't add any additional commentary, but looking forward to being the new liaison and working with uh Director Schlack as well and working with TCAC and the coming months.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um I see John first and then Chris.

Um just to interject on some of those comments.

Um, and I it would be good for direction if it's what you kind of want to see or not.

I know I've brought up kind of me personally, so I won't speak as the the committee, but um, for the last year or two, as far as with the um the grant money to make that part of the application process where it's either on the on the application or it's on the business page or somewhere visible.

A lot of times if a business is looking at a city, they won't even talk to a staff person or realtor.

But I've talked to too many businesses that have opened up, started, but didn't realize they could get grant money.

Um, if we made that process more visible and had that on there.

Um TLT, I think the last meeting or one before it was brought up, you know, whether or not we would have, you know, that would be something we discuss or not.

But I think that that is crucial to both those districts is to use that money for advertising because we have so many different great restaurants, shops, and things like that, where I think part of our our scope should be what we can do to drive people to those areas, what we can do to get businesses in there.

Um so I think there's a lot more we can do that we bright bring up, but I think if we get more clearer direction, then maybe some of these things that are being brought up and discussed, then we can move forward on them because I think we bring those up, but then we don't really kind of move forward on there.

So clarification of what we want, um, and I think those are crucial that we can work on it.

Because we do have business owners that are there every day that know what the that area needs, what we can do for it.

Um if we have that direction, we could definitely give recommendations on TLT dollars or other programs or processes that can be done in both those areas to uh you know to make it more vibrant um activities, everything like that, and work with TDA in the chamber as well.

Chris, um I was just wondering if it would make sense for us to shift when we're doing our strategic planning until after your guys' is done, so that there was some type of a honestly like this meeting would seem to be the sync point where you guys would say this is what we would like you to focus on, and then we would hear that and then we would go back and deal with our strategic plan maybe like mid-year rather than at the beginning of the year.

Does it make more sense to for that to be March, April, May?

Is there is there some time where that stuff is all due for you guys, and then we would we would be able to uh take that and react, you know, with our own strategic plan rather than trying to do something in January with like last year's work.

I think I think that's a great point.

And I think um we don't have hard deadlines right on when certain things need to come before us to be reviewed in terms of strategic plans.

I think coming back um this summer uh would be would be beneficial.

I mean, we've already um put some literature out there as far as um council goal to um elevate economic opportunities.

We've already passed the um TLT uh strategic plan so that can already be looked at.

And then I believe the next council update regarding the economic development strategic plan will be on March 3rd, and uh hopefully will be approved within four to five weeks from from then.

So by April.

So I think that there will be uh an opportunity to start looking at it now, and there are already things that can be looked at, and then coming back in June or July for maybe another workshop meeting uh would be helpful just to make sure that uh the TCDA board is providing the policy direction it wants for the TIFF districts, and we're all in alignment.

I don't think that there's an alignment.

You guys are in charge, we do that stuff, right?

Like that's what we're supposed to be, you know, building our plan around, and we're not we haven't done that because it's old stuff at this point.

So we just need to exactly get back in line.

Yeah.

Yes.

Other comments or questions?

Go ahead, John.

But I think one other thing maybe um it's maybe me suggested is also do we um I I I know the answer, but do we have kind of the um ability to kind of come up with ideas and throw them to the to the TCDA as well.

So I mean if we think that there's something that not is not being addressed by the city or the council, or we see, hey, that would be great to you know create like a small business toolbox that would be some kind of video online that would show businesses why to come to downtown Tiger, why come to the triangle?

If we suggest that, is that also things you want us to do as a kind of brainstorm, come up with different economic development ideas, things that maybe haven't been thought about and come and and throw those to you as well.

Uh Director Shaw, go ahead.

Well, thank you.

Yeah, I I think we're always looking for wonderful new ideas and ideas to attract businesses to Tiger to our TIFF district.

So certainly I think there's a forum on the agenda in TCAC meetings to do that, and staff can certainly um provide that information, and I as a liaison can provide that information uh to the director.

So I'd be happy to do that.

One last comment.

Um with 72nd, I know that that's a work in progress, and that's great.

And as Gabe said, you know, that there's um there's I've had videos that I've sent to the city of people that are on mobility scooters that are in that dip of 72nd, and you get around five o'clock where it's dark.

There's you know the lighting's okay there, but someone's gonna get hit.

And I've seen too many times someone in a stroller, someone in a mobility scooter, and waiting years until we can do the full build up.

I don't see how that's gonna work.

I don't know if there's a way to do a quicker, lighter, cheaper, some kind of little path on one side that at least just gives three feet or something that people can be there, um, at least be off the side because it's it's someone's gonna get hit, and then we're gonna have to really as a city figure out what we do when someone gets hit and killed there.

And I know I think I said this last time, but it it that's super dangerous there, and we're building more and more affordable living there for people that don't have vehicles or people that have disabilities.

And so we're building more of that and put it in a place where there's just it's not walkable, it's not navigated.

You know, you can't navigate, you can't get to public transit, which is being what's being sold is the use public transit.

All right.

Well, thank you again for all your work on behalf to TCAC and for the city, and and yeah, we really appreciate you.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, that's uh reconvenience.

Tiger City Council and next item.

Well next item on our agenda will be uh board and committee discussion.

And uh assistant to the city manager, Hendrix will uh give the staff's report.

Good evening, Nicole.

All right, good evening, Mayor and Council.

Good to see you.

My name is Nicole Hendrix, I'm the assistant to the city manager.

Thank you for having me here tonight to um begin a discussion about our boards and commit committees and potential improvements.

Next slide, please.

So we're looking for your guidance on three different components of improvements to our boards and committees, recognizing that there is a lot to cover.

We do plan to return in April with a more formal recommendation based on the guidance that we received tonight.

More specifically, we're hoping to get your preferences on specific bylaw sections and expectations to help standardize our bylaws across different boards and committees, affirm roles and purpose of boards in relation to council, provide and provide direction on new or rescoping existing boards.

So my plan is to go through the full presentation, covering the three different sections so you can just get the full picture of what we're covering within the next 40 minutes, and then once I'm done, we can go back each section and take time to discuss those in in a greater detail.

Next slide.

So I wanted to share a little bit more about why we're having this discussion and what we are hoping to achieve with this effort.

The city's boards and committees have been established over time to address a variety of policies, regulatory, and community needs.

As a result, our bylaws and scopes of work vary.

There is a lack of clarity and consistency, which can lead to some confusion or frustration for boarding committee members and team members.

As I mentioned in a previous slide, we're looking for your guidance to create that bylaw standardization, clear understanding of roles and purpose of boards, and then consideration of the new or rescoped exist existing boards.

This would apply to all the boards and committees, except where governed by state statute.

So, for example, budget committee or planning commission have certain sections around composition or just existence that are mandated by the state.

So our discussion wouldn't apply to those.

Next slide.

As part of this process, we asked current boarding committee members to complete a survey to give us a sense of what they were feeling and thinking.

We also have had conversations with and referenced feedback we've received over the years from our staff liaisons who help uh facilitate the the boards and committees, and then also heard from council members.

And so some of the key themes that were consistent across those stakeholders were a desire for more clarity and committee roles, consistency with bylaws and expectations, and interest in exploring new and rescoped committees.

And so this should sound familiar because this feedback directly uh informed the scope of what we're discussing tonight and what we're looking for your direction on, with the hope to achieve clarity and consistent consistency to meet the feedback that we received.

Next slide.

So for bylaw standardization, we're looking for council's initial specific thoughts within the sections of the of the different bylaws.

So the first being around membership and composition, so things like the size of a committee, uh officer positions and types or uh designated roles, and then eligibility for residency or not, and then alternates, so how they serve, how they are moved up it within the committee, are just some of the things that I'm looking for kind of your general uh first first reactions to.

And then terms of office, so things that include the length of a term, limits, and then also the last point should say officer terms, and then also roles and responsibilities.

So things around our parliamentary procedures, how we conduct the meetings, and then also attendance expectations as well.

And then reporting.

So an annual report to councils is typical in the bylaws, but there's some inconsistencies there.

So what does that look like?

What format do you want to see?

How much time do you want with the committees and that kind of thing?

So when we come back at the end of the presentation to discuss this item, I can also kind of start with some of the feedback that I've been hearing from staff, if that helps just with some of the discussion, just to get the discussion going.

Next slide.

So then the we're also looking for council to affirm and provide direction on the following to help clarify goals, uh roles.

So setting expectations and also just opportunity for how boards, board input is delivered and incorporated into the work that we do.

So in terms of roles and who does what, city council determines policy goals that provide the strategic direction for our board and committee work, advisory bodies review issues, provide input, and make recommendations that help the council understand different perspectives.

And the council then considers board recommendations and developing an advancing policy decision.

So that's something that happens now, but just want to make sure we reaffirm that that is kind of the roles and if there's anything missing in that.

And then not on this slide, but something to also consider is just the opportunities to elevate and clarify those responsibilities through actions such as when we do an annual review or onboarding with committee members on their charge and duties of existing bylaws to help reinforce that second bullet of what is your purpose and how does that fit within those that bigger picture.

Incorporating feedback loops into the process, so for staff liaisons to report back at the next committee meeting on what how their input was incorporated, so this the committees get a sense of how their feedback is being used.

And then formalizing committee feedback into more structured recommendations.

So that could look like when committee members propose a recommendation on an item that is then incorporated into staff reports for council discussion.

That recommendation is very clear in the staff report.

Additionally, the liaisons could voice that recommendation since they serve as that liaison to that board of what they heard during that discussion as well.

So when we get to that discussion, um, I'll be asking if you're supportive of the way the roles are kind of listed here and if you have any thoughts on the actions that we could do to help kind of reinforce those roles.

Next slide.

So this part of the discussion is intended to clarify council's interest in additional or re-scoped boards or committees and ensure any future changes are sustainable.

So emergency issues that have been recommended for consideration by either council or staff include topics on homelessness, climate, seniors, equity, special events, finance.

Um, and so those recommendations associated with each committee are detailed in an attachment in your packet.

They're listed here as well.

Um but really some of the concepts that we're kind of throwing out there for consideration is gonna say these out of order from what's on the slide, but the rescoping of committee for community engagement.

So right now they're very very broad in the engagement work they do, but kind of highlighting that focus of equity, um, equitable engagement report and special events.

So that's something that they've shown a lot of interest in, and they've really enjoyed that work, and so kind of building that ownership around those two items might help kind of rescope an existing committee to provide more clarity and also meets that desire for events and um and equity work.

Uh formalizing our community homeless uh assessment and response team, also known as chart to a house task force.

So that could look uh that scope could include things like reviewing time place banner ordinance changes or safe parking reports, um, so formalizing that group.

Also consider adding uh maybe a senior representative to a board where applicable, so if that's CCE or other boards, just to have that senior voice rather than having a whole separate committee, and then creating a finance committee to advise the council on financial matters that include the budgetary budgetary changes and also provide recommendations to the council on financial policies and actions, and so that could be separate from or in addition to the audit committee.

Um, and then I believe the memo from Finance Director King is also included in the packet, just kind of explaining that in more depth as well.

And then also for climate.

So we have a community-led group called Climate Action Tigered.

And so potentially we could work with more closely with them to deliver some recommendations and guidance in a public comment forum or setting rather than creating a new committee.

So we'll be looking to see if you're supportive of those points and considerations, or just yeah, again, first reactions to kind of give us a general direction to work with.

Next slide.

Next slide.

That was the slide I was looking for.

Thanks.

So again, we're seeking your specific guidance on these three different sections to help develop a more formal recommendation.

And then we can also talk about impacts and implementation when we bring forward that more recomm more formalized and recommend uh recommendation in our April discussion, I think we're currently scheduled for.

And so I'm happy to move back to the bylaw section so we can start just kind of having a conversation about that if that works for you, Mayor.

Yeah.

So thank you, Nicole.

So let's go back to the first of the three questions, which is the bylaw standardization.

The question on the table for the council is whether there's a general interest in moving toward greater consistency across bylaws, while allowing flexibility where needed.

And then the questions whether um the area the Nicole identifies, such as membership, term, role, and reporting uh feel like the right focus areas.

And uh we receive a proposal from Councillor Schlack, which is very detailed.

Thank you, Counselor Schlack.

Um outlining uh why he will like to see generally uh again today's purpose is to not adopt anything or giving firm commitment to anything, but just uh a temperature check to see how you all feel about you know generally what counselor, maybe we can start with what counselor Schlack has reported, anything that just give you a you know really strong emotion, or or you just look at it and say, yeah, it looks reasonable to me, but um I would take a further look.

So, counselor Schlack, you're eager to start.

So let's start with you.

Thank you, Mayor.

Yes, I uh support the effort to standardize bylaws across committees in some form or another.

And yes, I I've had um you know, I I was an alternate on budget committee, I've been an officer on budget committee, so and of course we've all been liaisons, so we've all had a lot of experiences to commit for committees.

So I just had some time when this topic first got on my radar to brainstorm how I would want to standardize things by you know respect the fact that I'm one out of seven here and there are no shortage of ideas of how to make this process and these structures better.

This is just my first stab at it.

And um rather than going line by line with the the document that was circulated with council, although I'm happy to do that, of course.

Um, I just sort of want to explain my sort of big picture thought of why I what this sort of package of changes, what how I came to it.

Um the main goal I wanted to do is um first of all increase by standardizing some uh board and committee sizes to 11 members.

I wanted to make sure that there were plenty of opportunities for community members to get involved.

Having sat on the panel making appointments, some committees are much larger than others.

So you get some committees that are really competitive, like Parks and Recreation Board, where I would love to expand that committee and get some more people on it.

And then there are some other ones where we just can't get people to serve on them because they're just not immediately interesting to general community members.

So I would love to just standardize the size of committees across the board so that way we everybody has a level playing field and also increase it generally across the board so that way there's that opportunity to get more people involved and have more community voices heard.

Um as a consequence, one of the things that I added that wasn't on the list was um updating what a quorum and a majority would be.

Because of course, if we're gonna expand things, that means there's probably going to be more vacancies for longer periods of time on some committees.

So I think if we were to expand committee sizes, we would need to make sure that um a majority for uh a majority vote would be a majority of sitting members as opposed to a majority of 11.

So the example I gave is that if we had 11 member committee that had two vacancies, there would be nine current members, and so it would take five votes, for instance, to pass meeting minutes.

That's the type of sort of structure that I'm looking for to make sure we get more people involved, but also we have a structure that's flexible enough to account for vacancies.

And I think that's the main sort of structural piece I'd like to talk about there.

I'm also happy to uh explain if some of my other thoughts and also I just provided this so you all could read my thoughts, and I didn't have to talk too much.

So those were the main points I wanted to bring up across.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councillor Schlack.

Counselor Glucki.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um although I agree, I do have an appetite to have a sort of bylaw standardization overall.

Um the intent of the boards are going to be to advise not to share governing authorities with that standardization does help reinforce that principle.

Um but I do feel that we do need to maintain some flexibility as different committees have different needs.

So something like C C E where we do want that diversity in opinion, I would want a much larger group than let's say the audit committee.

So there are some things that I have.

I like the general idea of most of this in terms of going line by line, and I know that's not the intent of today.

Um but so to answer the question, yes, yes, I do have an appetite for bylaw standardization.

Council President Wolf.

So Councillor Schlack, thank you for structuring this and making this conversation very efficient and effective.

And really um I support all the recommendations to standardize, and I think just the couple of um points that I would pause on, I think are similar to counselor Gaducy and um size and of committee.

Um I mean, because I sit currently on audit committee and have for several years.

Um to me that doesn't make sense to be 11.

Chances are we wouldn't get to 11.

Um, so maybe that's okay.

But I wonder if there's that we have the structure, but then let's step back and say, does this make sense for you know, to kind of do that um dipstick check, if you will, to go should there be a couple modifications?

And then the other thing in Counselor Schlack, maybe you can answer the question um review the need of designated positions.

What I wanna be clear, I think there's value in that.

And then, like the audit committee, um now counselor Robbins was a member as a community member, um, not an accountant per se, but there's a lot of CPAs that you know sit around and give guidance.

So I don't want to lose when it's appropriate, a technical expertise.

Um so I'm almost done, Counselor Slack.

So my last point is um as I was reading um the materials um, which uh were a lot, so thank you.

No, Nicole, for all the hard work, really.

Um that wasn't a like it was a lot.

Um, you know, I kept coming back to, and it was in the write-up, what's the purpose, right?

I mean, I I honestly want to kind of start with why does it exist anyway?

And I felt like the survey said that.

What's our charge?

What's our purpose?

So I I love the um efficiency of this, but I still gave pause on do are they all still valid?

Are they clear?

And Nicole, I know you and I have had a variety of conversations about that with committees.

So that's still kind of my driving thing.

So thank you.

I think I made the two points around membership composition and seat type.

Otherwise, I really appreciate the work.

And Counselor Schlack, I know you want something to say.

Yeah, I apologize.

I was mainly trying to flag down the mayor to be like, I want to respond, not to cut you off.

So I apologize for that.

Um regarding audit committee, I uh totally hear what you both are saying.

That's a very technical and specialized committee.

I think there's a broader question about whether that we want to fold that into a finance committee, with a which I think as a larger would would make sense as a larger scale committee of around nine to eleven members.

Um regarding designated positions, I just didn't have a really strong opinion on how to standardize it.

I mean, I think um I I part of me wants to make it as simple as possible, but I also respect the fact that we do want to designate certain voices to be parts of certain conversations.

Like I mentioned, we want to have a back bicycle advocate on uh TTAC.

We're about to consider whether we want to have um senior positions on on their senior citizen positions um to bring that perspective across all policy areas.

So um the reason I said review the need for designated positions on a case-by-case basis is because I don't know where it's valuable and where it's not valuable.

Um, and I want to respect that sometimes it is valuable and and so on.

I'm more uh if we can get rid of ex officio positions, which may only be on planning commission, if I recall correctly.

That's the only one where I'm like, no, you should be a current member.

So anyway, thank you.

Counselor Robbins.

Thank you.

Um Counselor Slacks, thank you for doing all the work on this.

Super thorough.

Um, and I appreciate all the things you thought of that I probably wouldn't have thought of.

So I appreciate that.

Um couple people have mentioned certain committees won't be big enough, like and also the web, which is on our matrix here, but a little bit separate, also has very specific number of members.

I think that 11 committee members might be too big when you just do a search on what's an optimal committee size.

Five to seven is really more efficient, maybe nine, you know, eleven.

Some people say, you know, if you're gonna break it into subcommittees, it can work.

But 11 people talking about something, it can be really hard to get something done.

However, I do appreciate the desire to get more people involved.

So for some committees, that could be a very good thing.

And then we just kind of look at each one and say how many do we think this needs to be?

Um I personally was on the audit committee, and even though what yeah we did have some uh accountants on there, but I also think it's important as a way for individual citizens to get to learn that yes, we do manage our money right.

Um and how we make sure that that is the case.

Um and I don't know about rolling it into a finance committee because for some people the audit committee, it only meets a couple times a year.

Maybe it feels like a way you can dip your toe in and not make a huge commitment but still get involved in the city, whereas if it gets rolled into a bigger finance role, you might not get those people now.

Whether or not that's it's something to consider, you know, maybe it's not, but it you know, that's kind of how I look at it.

Um I don't think we should have designated members.

I think if we have very involved seniors in our community in our community in general at the annual meeting we just had with the town center advisory committee, there was at least two senior citizens there.

Um, you know, and then how do you define it?

I technically am a senior citizen, so what what cutoff is that?

And so I, you know, are we gonna start if we start doing that, then I think then we have to say, well, are we gonna have a middle-aged person and then a younger person and you know, um, which I would say that we need more younger people involved in some of our committees than our more established citizens.

Um so as far as the bylaws, I guess that's that's about all I had to say.

Um I thought the term limits seemed fine.

Um I agree to get rid of alternate members because like for the audit committee, I think at one point we had an opening without a permanent member, but then I was appointed alternate.

But then later on somebody else left and I was moved up, so why not just you know if you fill the committee?

Um that's about it for my comments on the bylaws part of things.

Anything stand up?

Anything new and improved.

No, it looks actually I do like the uh no alternates.

I I think they always get discouraged and they eventually drop off.

So rather than have an alternate, just say reapply next year or three years.

You know, the three-year term I like.

Uh three-year term, three, three-year terms.

I think that's good.

Um rotate that.

But yeah, clean up the bylaws, that'd be great.

Okay.

Counselor Shaw, you have any input?

Uh thank you.

Yeah.

First, I'd like to thank Dicole for all the work she did here and Counselor Schlag for sending out the memo.

Um, I would recommend we have smaller um size groups.

I think 11 is too many.

Uh I do know that oftentimes, except for one or two uh committees, we do struggle with trying to get individuals.

And so I think having more is can be problematic and it causes more staff time.

I do not think we should have um more than two consecutive terms.

And I'm not sure if someone has their mic on, but I'm getting a feedback again.

But um, it should be two consecutive terms and they should be two-year terms.

I do not, I think we need to have a rotation so community members can participate.

And if we do three-year, three consecutive terms, that limits the ability of our uh community members to attend.

Um as far as um increase including unincorporated Bull Mount and Metzger communities, I think that is fine.

Um I have no issues with um and agree that we should follow parliamentary process and it could be an annual presentation report, uh, but some mechanism where there's a feedback loop.

Um also agree with the quorum sentiments, and as far as alternates, um, I think there could be alternate positions that um could be in alignment, but if we do have an alternate, it has to ensure that they become a voting member because there could be a case where the chair and vice chair are no longer potentially on the board, and having uh an alternate allows us to move that individual up.

Also it gives community members the ability if they don't want to be a voting member to participate.

And I'm gonna leave my comments for um uh the different committees for our next discussion, but I also in closing, I do appreciate uh council president Wolf's comment about roles and purpose of the boards and committees, and I'm hoping that we have that discussion too.

Um I think I would have preferred that first and bylaws second, but yeah, as may uh those are my comments.

Thank you, Mayor.

Youth Councilor, you have anything to add.

member to participate and I'm gonna leave my comments for um uh the different committees for our next discussion but I also final in closing I do appreciate uh council president wolf's comment about roles and purpose of the boards and committees and I'm hoping that we have that discussion too um I think I would have preferred that first and bylaws second but yeah as may uh those are my comments thank you mayor youth counselor you have anything to add um I think that I agree with every thing that everyone's been saying generally about I think eleven's too many like I like the five or seven I think I like seven I like the bigger number I do like bigger numbers but I think eleven's too many so like seven to nine or something um I'm just the only thing is I agree about the location thing with everything but I think for TIAC we should remain with what it is where you can join if you're in the TTSD school district because there's some instances where people are like technically out of tigered bounds or whatever but it's since that's a youth one the school district thing I think is a better rule for that but other than that I kind of just agree with everything on here.

So thank you.

So the planning commission now has seven commissioners right now voting nine voting yeah I yeah seven voting and two alternates I believe.

Okay.

So um yeah I'm okay with a little bit less than 11 um but again I think I think council has a general consensus to standardize them but you know look at flexibility for some of a specific boring commission because they have different you know specialized functions I guess um yeah and I for me I really um yeah support you know we can have non-residents but they must be they must be you know somehow still tied to the community right they still go to our parks or they still uh you know our neighbor immediate neighbors so it doesn't make sense for somebody who lives 50 miles away and continue to serve uh term limits um I think two makes more sense to me and then three um yeah and code of conduct that's a that's a must I think that must be something that board committee member when they sign to agree to accept our appointment it automatically means they agree to our code of conduct so that we don't have to chase them down for another signature but other than that I think that's pretty um I think I think we we can we can get we can get there in April but maybe not right now but did you do you think you that's pretty clear or yeah I feel like I have direction to draft a set of standard bylaws for you all to react to and get feedback and we may have to customize it a little bit with different board committees.

So okay all right so let's move on to the go ahead council president wolf thank you yeah so I just have a a couple things um one of the last comments you made about kind of the automatic code of conduct I just think it's really important that you are reminded a second time required to just read that and sign it um so I guess I appreciated the separate component unless I I just want to make sure people have to uh read that separately have time they think about it that's my point however that gets shaped okay that's fine and then the only other question um youth counselor um how like I appreciate your request about the school district what I would want to know Nicole is what Beaverton does because what I don't want is for a student really excited about government to not get to go to Beaverton because they're not in the Beaverton city boundaries and not get to participate in Tiger because they're not in the Tiger 12 in school district and there's a a good sliver that goes to Beaverton.

So I don't know that I'm passionate about you know that but just wanting to make sure any child who has that interest uh is covered so thank you.

Sounds good.

Thank you.

Yeah that's fine so uh we have 15 minutes left so please go ahead just to also add to that for the the student part of it there are um uh maybe a smaller sliver of students who are outside of are in the unincorporated part of Tigered who perhaps go to private school for high school but went to TTSD throughout elementary and middle school so they really feel like they're part of Tigered but cannot currently participate and so um and so they can't go to Beaverton because they're not going to a Beaverton school like say they they go to Jesuit high school or something.

So okay let's move on to section two which is role and purpose.

Um so is there interest in stress strengthening feedback loops so committee members understand how their input is being used uh I will go back to the slide too sorry I IT team um so I this time I would start with Councillor Anderson.

Do you think we should is there interest in strengthening the feedback loop?

So uh committee member understand how their input is being used yeah I think maybe a one-on-one with the uh with the presidents so they can kind of control their group uh from the liaison uh kind of coach them a little bit and uh make sure that they're on task and of course uh a good written uh mission statement would be helpful to review every meeting counselor codusi um yes so understanding the purpose and how that input is used is one of the most important things that we need to do moving forward uh and it goes along with our strategic plan for transparency yeah counselor Shaw yes thank you mayor uh yes definitely guidance for um clarity of purpose makes sense and I would also uh highlight what goals of the council that they're working on because I know that's was real valuable when CCE did that they specifically called out council goals and the work within it I think that would be a value as well.

Councilor person wolf did o to counselor Shaw all right counselor Schlack.

I support the uh relationship that was described on the slide in full and I'd love to see in AIS if there was something that went before um the committee for feedback I'd love to have that come back in documentation I also like Councillor Anderson's idea of uh well respecting the fact that we're nonvoting members on most city boards and committees strengthening that relationship so that way maybe it's a little less than a less of a fly on the wall which it currently is right now.

So um I agree.

Counselor Robbins Yes I agree.

Okay.

Youth counselor okay um I agree and then just one example it's like you know we we the board the council is going to talk about funding for park and I've been asking the park and board you know Prab it's like give us feedback so maybe there's something before that discussion we can ask Prabh for actually for their feedback.

I mean there are actually things the council discuss that we would like feedback so I don't know how to execute that but it's something like that.

So we we do want stronger feedback loop to so we we have better communication and then understand how their feedback is being used.

Alright so I I suspect the next one is that why everybody really want to talk about is uh new uh rescope committees um I don't know what would what be the most efficient but since uh the finance committee you already have a more developed concept so maybe we'll stop with start with that so hopefully everybody read uh Director Kane's memo so uh uh this time we'll start with counselor robbins finance committee f in favor or not in favor or we don't really need it or if you in favor what kind of structure I I kind of like the idea of keeping like I said the audit committee separate because it's something that gives people you know less less commitment but still volunteering and learning about it but um I'm not necessarily opposed to making changes if that's what everyone else wants.

Okay.

Council Schlack I support the proposed finance committee because I think it is a more weighty committee.

It still gives a public opportunity to have a voice in the audit process and community oversight but I like that it gives oversight over additional areas including supplemental budgets our investment policy and can be a broader financial um uh point of discussion in our community so that's why I support it Council President Wolf.

Yeah I support the model um have a lot of experience with a finance committee as described at Tiger Dwalton school districts and I think it worked well to cover all aspects in one committee and maybe there's an option to be a sub-audit so if you want to just be audit you show up you know for um I don't know but I want an umbrella whole group for finance uh I'm I'm I'm waiting and see I'm not too convinced with anyone and I still support we have a separate audit but I will reserve my my judgment uh counselor shawl thank you mayor I would support as well a finance committee enrolling in the audit committee within that if it ends up being a subcommittee so those who just strictly want to focus on audit they certainly can't do but I I do support uh the establishment of a finance committee enrolling audit within it thank you counselor thank you mayor if we do have a finance committee I would recommend throwing in the audit committee okay counselor anderson I'm not sure we need it um I would support it I'm not sure what kind of interest do you get would you get enough people?

Counselor.

Thank you, Mayor.

If we do have a finance committee, I would recommend throwing in the audit committee.

Okay.

Counselor Anderson.

I'm not sure we need it.

Um I would support it.

I'm not sure what kind of interest you get.

Would you get enough people?

That's uh that's a question I have.

But uh if you got a lot of nice financial professionals, sure.

Is the counselor um I'd support a financial community committee with an audit subcommittee.

Okay.

All right.

And then so I guess we'll explore that option.

And I mean you see a printout of other stuff.

Uh let's see.

In the remaining six minutes, I don't know how fast we can go through those.

Uh event committee.

I think there's a go ahead, Councillor Schlack.

I just wanted to clarify the staff recommendation is different from that particular grid of creating new committees.

Right, right.

I understand.

Thank you.

I understand.

Um Nico, you're mentioning that CCE might make sense to faux events and equity in it.

So do we do we have any okay?

I see lots of thumbs up.

And counselor Shaw, you raise your hand.

Oh, thumbs up.

So okay.

Do you have any other further common, Counselor Shaw?

No?

Oh.

Um I was yes, I do about the other um climate action tigered and the senior as well as uh chart.

And I can certainly move to that.

Um so let's let's focus on chart first.

Do we all agree to uh have a homelessness committee um to replace chart?

Yes.

Thumbs up, thumbs up.

Counselor Caducey, not thumbs up.

Not thumbs up, but if we do end up having a structured committee, we really have to define the specific goals and the outcomes of what I agree.

That is one that very particularly can have a lot of scope creep.

So making sure we have a defined roles and what we want them to do with the code.

Okay.

So that's in a big knot.

We need to have a tie scope of what it actually does.

Uh let me go to counselor shaw first.

Oh, do you go ahead, Counselor Shaw?

Yeah, thank you.

Uh we originally had a homeless task force and it had about 50 to 80.

And counselor Anderson may rem remember this as well in his time.

Uh but it was a very exhaustive report.

So there has been some work done before.

Um, what we found when we had that committee is that a lot of our nonprofits would weren't speaking to each other.

They didn't have an avenue to speak to each other, and that's why chart was established, because there was a lot of duplicative work being done.

And so, similar to Councillor Gadusi, I'd want to make sure we're very clear about what the role and responsibilities are, because I'd hate to lose that point of connection for the nonprofits.

And I'd also hate for us to recreate the wheel when a lot of work had been done by previous council, previous um task force members on homelessness.

So I would support um reconfiguring chart, but with those caveats.

Counselor Robins.

I would also like to add that there has been interest from some community members wanting to attend chart, and I think maybe perhaps there's just on an observational basis, so I don't know if they want to participate.

But for this committee, would it be open to the public?

How much comments would happen from the public?

You know, as far as I have knowing scope, the scope of it, not allowing scope creep, also making sure it's not just a place for people to make comments without having solutions as well, or trying to go forward with solutions or finding them.

Counselor Schlack.

Um I won't go into too much depth, but um in our last homelessness update, I provided a proposed scope structure and composition for a what this sort of homelessness task force would be, and I'd be happy to uh have staff or myself um circulate that um as I did with the bylaws.

Please do.

And any counselor, counselor, you have any idea about this proposed new um board of committees that you know the council collectively give you know tender green light to go for, please submit your ideas to Nicole.

So um, you know, so we can have a better idea.

And if also for climate and senior committee, I assume council member will want tight scope and so it's not uh what you call mission creep.

So scope creep, right?

So is that something counselor schlack?

I support the staff proposal to have climate action tiger to come in, say on workshop meetings, like we have other organizations come in to provide updates on what they're doing.

Yeah and I I we're gonna have a further we're gonna have further discussion in April.

So any counselor who is interested in pushing uh pushing forward moving forward with any of the committees please please uh put put forward your scope you know so we won't have scope creep issue uh counselor Shaw I I see you raise your hand thank you um uh just to be quick the climate action tiger's self-appointed and I think it sets a dangerous precedent to um establish a have whether it's community based or a staff led community based organization and to give that recognition when it wasn't part of our boards and committees and so I wouldn't object to them coming to perhaps uh provide an overview of what they're doing but I just think it sets a dangerous precedent uh to codify that and then uh look forward to further discussions with regards to seniors as I do think our youth are well represented thank you thank you and we'll we'll we'll talk about in April we we don't have to move forward in anything we talk about today so go ahead council personal wolf my only request and it goes back to roles and purposes so thank you for sharing the survey and I just don't want to lose this because a lot of the feedback of community members was I just don't know what we do.

So we're coming up with this is what you should do but it should be a two-way street you know our committee members are the ones dedicating their time serving the city and and so I don't know what that answer is Nicole but I just don't want to lose sight that people love to serve but they're not quite sure what their you know purpose is and I really value that so whatever that looks like that's really important.

So we are over time but we have like I I will entertain last minute thoughts.

But again we'll come back on in April so anything you can think of before now in April please forward them to Nicole go ahead counselor schlack last moment.

I agree with um council president wolf on clarifying what the roles are and sort of like we had with the the TCAC discussion I think the ball is on our court to say what we want of these committees because they're here to advise the elected council in policy making that is the relationship we all agreed with.

And then I just wanted to confirm what I heard from the um committee direction side what I heard was yes to finance and audit rolling into it events and equity being formally put under CCE yes on principle to a homelessness task force but we need to see further details um and then it it was sort of ambiguous as far as climate and seniors but we can come back to that in April since we ran out of time.

I just wanted to confirm that we're in alignment that that is the consensus.

Yes.

That's what you have Nico and all right go ahead counselor Robbins.

Sorry thank you.

I just wanted to add that um with current current uh pressures that we have on staff right now it's kind of sounds like we're talking about creating a couple new committees possibly um which means more work for staff more staff liaisons um I would like to revisit the the purpose like we said of some of the other committees and how um uh uh I don't want to say useful but how impactful they are and also how how aligned they are I saw some some negative comments that I I feel like I've seen as well um regarding like the transportation being very bike focused without a lot of drivers um and also negative comments towards people who drive and so are we using this is this committee serving a purpose is it are the people who are serving on it happy and if we're gonna add new committees should we uh merge some other committees or perhaps um retire another committee and I'm not picking just on transportation there but just you know I don't want to create four new committees which is more work for staff in a very busy time.

Yes that's why we're really focused on scope creep we want to make sure this is really helping us all right counselor schlack very very last one sorry sorry there's a under the current consensus there's only one net new committee that's being proposed which is finance everything else is either an increase in responsibilities to an existing committee or an evolution or replacement of an existing committee.

So there's only one net new one that's been proposed right now.

Yeah.

All right all right we we can talk about in April so thank you.

So thank you so much.

And let's move on to consideration of a resolution for bond referral.

And our city attorney Rihala will introduce this item.

Good evening.

Good evening, Council.

So the uh document you have before you is the proposed ballot title for the bond measure in the May election.

This has been developed with many hands touching it over.

Was it sitting at our table?

Yes.

Let me make sure I have it.

Go ahead.

That was mine that I brought.

Okay, go ahead.

Yes, we have many eyes on it before.

So I thought this was a good thing.

It's fresh.

Perfect.

All right.

So this document uh the development of it, um, we received feedback from council as to key themes that uh you all wanted included.

Uh we worked with our communications team uh in response to the polling information as well as uh key messages that the team has been working on over time.

Uh this has been reviewed with bond council, and then a final vet with council um in the past few weeks.

I received individual comments by email that are incorporated into this document.

So uh since the last time uh you saw it, since the time it was published, there were just a handful of small changes.

Uh in the summary, the second line um we added the word were in front of recommended.

So the past useful life were recommended for replacement.

In the second paragraph, uh new we added the word centralized in front of facility.

So it now reads costs related to providing one new centralized facility.

And then in the second bullet point, we added uh on site after uh secure storage of criminal evidence on site.

So we're limited in word count.

Uh this brings us, I believe, within two words uh in the summary, and we are uh at the maximum in the caption in question.

Uh as a reminder, the ballot title is what is going to appear in your voters' pamphlet.

It is supposed to be a neutral impartial description of the measure and its impacts.

And uh we believe we have done that in the small number of words allocated.

Uh so I'm happy to answer any questions.

Counselors, questions?

Counselor Schlack.

Uh I just wanted to thank City Attorney Rahala and team for my last minute suggestions on some of those word choices because I think um what I really took away from the polling last week is that uh efficient response is um the most convincing argument we have, and I wanted to make sure that we hit on some of those points in this by saying centralized and pointing out that we're bringing things on site as opposed to having them spread throughout the city or having, for instance, uh police officers training in different cities entirely because we don't have the facilities for them to train here.

So I appreciate the responsiveness today.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

Any further discussion or motion.

Mayor, I move to approve resolution number 26-08.

I'll second.

All right.

So the motion is being put on the floor and that's being second.

Is there any further discussion seeing none?

Those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Hi.

Aye.

Opposed.

So resolution number 26-08 is adopted by anonymous vote of the council.

So I'm very excited about this uh moving forward to the voters.

Um, as the uh statement has provided that you know, our current public safety and uh public work facility will build really decades ago when Tiger was much smaller.

Since then, our population has really tripled, and the demand on our services have grown subs significantly.

For example, when our police department building was constructed, Tiger had about 20 officers.

Today we have nearly 80 um 70 officers, including 16 support staff.

Uh the building simply was not designed for what level of staffing or modern proper uh modern operation needs.

There comes to a point where continuing continuing to repair aging infrastructure is no longer the most responsible choice.

Much like a well-worn uh pair of shoes, you can repair them for a while, but eventually replacement becomes the safer and most cost-effective option.

So uh this proposed project is more about more than buildings, it's about improving coordination between public safety, public works, and emergency management, supporting faster and more effective response during emergencies, strengthening worker safety, and ensuring Tiger can continue to provide reliable services for decades to come.

Ultimately, this referral gives our community the opportunity to review the proposal, ask questions, and make an informed decision at the ballot box.

So I would like to thank all the city staff and everyone who have contributed to the work that brought us to this point.

And thank you, all the counselors, for your support for this uh referrals.

Uh with that, uh, we don't have non agenda items scheduled, so there being no additional item, this meeting is adjourned.

Good night, Tiger.