All right.

It's 6:30.

Good evening, everyone.

I will call this uh Tiger City Council and Local Contract Review Board to order.

Uh W City Recorder Bartholomew, would you please conduct a roll call?

Councilor Gaducey is absent.

Mayor who?

Here Councillor Robbins?

Here.

Councilor Schlack.

Here.

Councilor Shaw.

Here.

Council President Wolf.

Here.

Councillor Anderson.

Here.

Thank you.

Would everyone please stand and join me in the Pledge of Legions?

All right, Council and City Team.

Do you have any non-agenda items?

Seeing none, let's move on to the public comment section.

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

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

The calling number is 503-966-4101.

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

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

Regarding Britain Common, we received seven written comments by Monday noon deadline.

Topics include downtown reimagine, the intersection, walnut, and highway 99W, safety along Southwest Garden Place, River Tars 2.0, the splash pad, concerns with the person living in their car, commercial solicitation, and firework enforcement.

All right, so next let's move on to in-person public comment.

And we have one person up.

Please uh have a seat and turn on your mic, and after you stay your name, you have two minutes.

Thank you.

Good evening.

It's on.

This is a compliment.

I want to tell you how much everyone appreciates the fireworks instead of the drone show.

I have not heard one negative comment.

We live in Summerfield.

It was full again with people parking there.

There are places on the golf course where they're allowed to sit if they can't walk or don't want to walk over the stadium.

And people left and I went outside to see because there were so many cars.

We had all ages, a lot of young people.

So I well, I think it was great to try the drone show.

I was one of the ones that came and said I didn't think was very effective because it couldn't be enjoyed by very many people.

Let me tell you, you did a bang up job this year.

So thank you very much.

Thank you, Louis.

I appreciate it.

All right.

So uh I don't see anybody uh wanting to provide public comments, so let's move on to uh phone phone uh online interview.

Mr.

Miller, are there any caller online?

We do not have any calls, Mayor.

All right, thank you, Mr.

Miller.

So let's move on to uh city manager report.

Acting city manager Rager will give a brief report.

Good evening.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Um as was just mentioned the last weekend's one big fourth uh event was a huge success.

Uh we drew over 12,000 attendees uh to honor America's historic 250th anniversary.

Uh perfect weather, day was great, uh blend of festivities of all sizes and including the local favorite, the middle of of Mellon Drive parade.

Uh summing up the whole day, the massive community gathering was made possible really through partnerships through with King City, Tiger Twelland School District, and Twelland Valley Fire and Rescue, and we're really thankful for the partnership between the four groups to bring that together.

I also want to give a shout out to the many city staff that were there to support that event.

Uh couldn't have happened without all of them.

So my thanks to them all for being there.

Uh we also want to encourage everyone to keep checking the city events calendar regularly so they don't miss any of the other things we've got planned for the rest of the summer.

And that's the end of my report.

Thank you.

Any questions or comments?

Yeah, I also appreciate the King City's uh partnership.

I marching the King City Parade in the morning.

That was a lot of fun.

So great great job, everybody.

So thank you.

All right.

So let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is consent agenda.

The consent agenda is used for routine items, including approval of min meeting minutes, contracts, and intergovernmental agreements.

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

These items may be enacted in one motion without separate discussion.

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

Tonight we have the May election canvas of votes, approval minutes of few and related service contract, the Lake Oswego Tiger Water Supply Expansion Engineering Service contract, and an amendment to the McDonald's Street Engineering Service contract.

Any questions or motion?

Mayor, I move to approve the consent agenda as presented.

Second.

Thank you, Councillor Schlack and Council President Wolf.

Is there any further discussion?

Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed say nay.

The consent agenda is adopted by a unimous unanimous vote of Council Presson.

Thank you.

All right, let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is downtown reimagined project update.

And senior planner Shanks will give the staff report.

Hello.

Before we begin, I wanted to uh take a brief moment to congratulate Susan who is retiring effective tomorrow.

How many years?

Thirteen.

Thirteen years here at the city.

So before we started, we at least I I wanted to make mention of what a what a valuable uh resource she's been and just a wonderful partner in all of planning and we will be very much missed by the by the team.

And on that.

I think uh Mayor Who we've almost worked together that long.

You will yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

So my name is Susan Shanks.

I'm a senior planner with the City of Tiger.

And um tonight I'll be presenting the an update on the downtown reimagined project and seek council's feedback on some specific questions, but of course, welcome any of your comments, thoughts, um, questions about the draft proposal.

And I need a presentation.

Yeah, I'm sure Mr.

Miller's uh working on that.

Well, while we wait, do you have any plans after you retire?

Like little ones, big ones, yeah, aspirations.

I'm not thinking of like maybe build furniture or like build houses with habitat for humanity.

We'll see.

Less computer time.

Oh, yeah.

Is the goal.

Sounds good.

Much less computer time.

In a particular city or um for building houses.

I mean, I'm hoping to stay local, but I was reading about how they have this annual, it's like the Carter uh annual build.

Because uh former President Jimmy Carter and his wife were really, really active.

And so they go from city to city like they change it.

It's just habitat for humanity.

Yeah, it's yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it just sounds amazing.

Yeah.

But we'll see.

But more local.

I want to learn too.

I'm pretty handy, but it'd be nice to know more.

Okay, thank you for bringing up the presentation.

Um, next slide, please.

And actually, before I just want to say one thing before I start, congratulations to our new city manager, Brian Rager, and you and I worked together for my entire time here, although you have been here much longer.

So thank you for stepping up yet again.

Thank you, Susan.

It's been nice working with you, and I wish you all the best.

That'll be great.

Yeah, thanks.

Okay, with that.

Um tonight I'll be going over kind of just um the project in general, uh, purpose and outcomes, um, as well as the project schedule, um, stakeholder engagement uh done for this phase of the project, and um as well as uh the draft proposal.

The draft proposal at this point in time consists of a series of maps and some tables, but just as a reminder, uh the final proposal will actually be an updated code development code chapter, specifically the downtown Tiger Plan District chapter.

So it's going to be a lot more words with some of those maps and tables embedded into it.

So this is still at the draft stage, but maps and tables at this point in time really are the best way to capture like the level of detail that we have to offer at this time, and then you'll have another opportunity and perhaps several opportunities to comment on the actual uh plan district chapter and all of the the details that will go into that chapter.

Uh next slide, please.

So this is a long-range planning project.

I've had a number of um updates recently with the city council, and so hopefully you're familiar with what the project is going like where we're at now.

Um we picked it up after a hiatus um due to staff resourcing and and just changes.

Um but so the project purpose is to basically update the development code and the regulations that govern development in downtown Tiger and really to integrate um the core of downtown Tiger, the like kind of historic and kind of um uh community center that um that the community actually really um you know wants to come to and hopefully wants to live in, but the businesses that are here that really kind of integrates it with what's here, but also with a modernized approach to the housing that we need as well as the multimodal transportation facilities that we need while still recognizing that people still drive to downtown Tiger and kind of providing that balance in our transportation system that it currently lacks.

Next slide, please.

So this project is now in its third phase, hopefully third and final phase.

It's been uh like I said, a long-range planning project, but uh a long uh project in general.

Um there was a big community effort in 2020 to come up with a new vision statement for downtown Tigered, um, which I've included on the slide.

And phase two, which ended in 2024 was updating the comprehensive plan, um our comprehensive plan, which is the city's uh land use um like overarching document, and so it was updating the uh that document to represent and implement the vision for the community that the community had come up with.

And then this phase that we're in now, which is the third on the list, is to basically do policy implementation work, which is creating that plan district chapter that goes into our development code, and that's to implement both the vision from 2020 as well as the comp plan policy updates to bring that together in a way that then applies to development when new development, redevelopment happens in downtown Tiger.

Next slide, please.

So this is the project schedule for this phase of the project.

And as you can see, it started back in September of 2025 when we picked it back up again and we started looking at where we left off, the questions and concerns were raised at that time, and we kind of redrafted, um, came up with a new draft, a zoning proposal, transportation network proposal, and uh SYNCP development standards, uh brought that to a number of stakeholder groups that will be shown on a later slide, um, getting their feedback, continuing to make refinements, having discussions with council as well as with planning commission.

And then the next step, that TBD arrow, which is not yet determined, but that would be when we would have a final proposal developed after receiving direction from you tonight and any, you know, any times that we need to come back after that, but to develop basically a final proposal, i.e.

that draft plan district chapter, and that this would then be available for public comment, usually around we do two weeks to a month, and then we would bring that whole package and any other additional refinements we had made after receiving kind of that more formal public comment to both the planning commission and city council at a series of public hearings.

So there's still plenty of opportunity for the community to weigh in on this.

It is by no means done at this point.

Um that's where we're at.

Next slide, please.

So these are the stakeholder groups that we've engaged during this phase of the project.

Um and this is pretty much uh since the in the last four months.

So we've um presented and gotten feedback at the Planning Commission, at the Transportation Advisory Committee, at the Town Center Advisory Commission, um, the downtown alliance, the chamber of commerce.

Um we sent out emails to well, as many emails as we had to downtown businesses and property owners and had an online information session, and we're in the process of developing an online survey for that stakeholder group as well.

And then we also reached out to potential developers and previously had some meetings with potential developers to understand more about kind of their issues when they look at downtown Tiger as a place to build something new or redevelop a property.

So we've been working with those groups and we continue to do so, um, fielding emails as they come in.

I understand one email came in from the chamber, not sorry, not from the chamber, from the Tiger Downtown Alliance that we responded to in detail with the project schedule, um, as well as you know how we definitely would like to continue to partner with them.

Um if you can go to the next slide, please.

I kind of briefly summarize the kinds of feedback that we've gotten to date, and it's still coming in.

So I kind of broke it out into three different categories: the things that people have concerns or questions about, what they like, and what they want.

Um so concerns are about impacts of the land use, the new use restrictions, um, and potential prohibitions on certain businesses or um types of land uses, um which is totally fair.

If I had a business, I would be wanting to know about that and how it affected me.

And I've had, I think, like a series of I think four different email exchanges with different businesses, like really wondering like, okay, how does this apply to me?

Um, and we have that documented, we can share those details, especially as we move forward into preparing the final proposal, because we're still we're definitely considering that feedback.

Um there's also been concerns about just the potential for displacement of the current uh housing that we have in downtown Tigered that is like market rate affordable to some degree, and there's the concern that if we are successful, and um as hopefully that there's a market upturn that as we get more development in downtown Tiger that you know that it might actually displace those folks who are already here, and which is also a very valid concern.

There's some things we can do about that, and other things that is not in our control.

Um obviously something that we want to take into consideration.

In terms of what people like about the draft proposal so far, they liked the balance of that we've come up with for balancing kind of the need for more of a more robust multimodal network, and by multimodal I mean more facilities for bicycle bicyclists and pedestrians, um, but also balancing that with the need for vehicular access as well.

Um definitely like the off-street bike network and the six-story height limit, as well as the location of the new zones just generally, like how we've gone from one monolithic M U C B D zone, which stands for our mixed-use central business district zone, to a more nuanced, here's where we want some mixed-use residential, and here's what we want mixed-use commercial, so that we actually are more intentional about trying to get more residential development in downtown.

Um, and developers definitely like the no maximum density aspect of the proposal because right now we've been hearing that that is one of the things that is a barrier to redevelopment, given some of the site sizes.

Like we have some really, really small parcels, and it's really hard to get to actually make a project pencil, even with staying well below six stories and not going over that maximum density.

So it's um that was an easy one to forego.

And so, but how we're still controlling kind of the size and scale of development because we're not downtown Portland, we're not looking for 20 story skyscrapers, is through that that maximum height.

So we're being agnostic about how many units someone might be able to put into any individual building, but as long as you like meet the building setbacks, meet the building height limitations, have at.

So it just provides a lot more flexibility for developers.

And some of the things we heard that people want, um, which is in some case um both in and outside the scope of this project, but we definitely heard some wants about preserving the historic buildings and character in downtown Tiger.

Um we have different parts of our code.

We have a whole historic resources chapter that protects uh historic resources when they've been designated that way through the city.

Um so we've done some education around the fact that uh state designated historic structures don't necessarily fall under our development code, it's a voluntary program.

It's only when someone then voluntarily has that structure or structures designated as a historic structure through the city's process that then our code would kick in and we would be part of the regulatory process.

Um but right now we actually have very, very, very few properties in all of uh the city of Tiger that have chosen to be voluntarily designated as a historic building.

So there are resources there for people who want to go to have their structure preserved in that way, but we can't force people to do that.

Um so that's available.

Um people definitely said they wanted a landscape buffer along Fanow Creek, which is something we've built in to the more detailed draft.

And they also uh talked about on street ADA parking spaces as a need.

Um so that's what we've been hearing, and we definitely have been taking all of it into consideration as we continue to iterate on the very, very, very fine details.

Next slide, please.

So the draft proposal, as I kind of said at the beginning, is made up of a series of maps at this point in time as well as some tables.

So what you had in your packet as attachment one was a current and proposed boundary for the planned district, and that's where these regulations would apply.

Anything outside the boundary would be subject to just the zone development standards that that property is in.

There's a proposed zoning map and a table that shows all of the different land use standards, and it compares it to the current land use standards.

Um it has another table that kind of gives you an overview of the key development standards, and those are things like building setbacks, building height, um minimum density, because we want to make sure we have like kind of a minimum baseline density when people do decide to do mixed use or standalone residential.

Um then there's a series of transportation maps as well as a table that kind of goes through actually it's not a table, it's a document that graphically shows and identifies where different kinds of streets and trail cross sections would apply.

Um we don't have a lot of area in downtown.

Um we do have a lot of barriers for transportation connectivity, and so that's um like so we have very targeted specific proposals for very individual streets because of the unique nature of the existing development patterns, where the creek is, where the railroad tracks are.

Um so we were trying to be very, very strategic and to minimize impacts to property, but providing that kind of connectivity that we really need in downtown.

So that's what is the draft proposal is currently made up of.

Next slide, please.

And um, and so to kind of understand a little bit of the sausage making that we went to based on all the feedback we got during phase one and phase two of this project, that um the draft proposal really um kind of comes out of this kind of these key criteria.

It is about how these how these regulations will support the community vision for downtown.

So going back to that one slide where the vision is stated about being welcoming and accessible, opportunities for both business and housing.

So it's really about supporting the community vision for downtown in the best way that we can to maximize connectivity, our transportation network, and to minimize impacts to private property owners by minimizing where we put potential new connections, whether it's a path or a street.

And then even considering like we we went to one-way streets in certain locations, and again, that was very intentional to minimize impacts to properties.

And then removing regulatory barriers to development and redevelopment, things like density or maximum density, like I was just talking about, and unlocking the development potential of large blocks and lots, and there's different ways to do that.

One that is providing like inserting some streets where the lots are quite large.

But it's also about things like removing like maximum density standards.

So there's different ways to unlock development potential and kind of facilitate redevelopment potential.

And then the next two are really specific to the transportation proposal.

Obviously, it's really key that is both safe and comfortable for everyone.

So users of all ages and all abilities, and that speaks to in part like having a really robust and connected multimodal transportation network.

So bike facilities that are not all on street, not everybody is comfortable.

You know, even in a bike line on street, many people are much more comfortable when they're separated more from vehicular traffic.

And lastly, we've we hear this all the time because the Fano Creek Trail is such a great resource.

Um even when we were doing the Washington Square Regional Center update, people wanted access to the Fano Creek Trail, and no surprise, people want more access to it in downtown as well.

So it's about providing more direct and convenient access to that trail, to the Tigert Heritage Trail, to Universal Plaza and the TriMut Transit Center.

And we think that I mean that has definitely guided us as we prepared the transportation proposal.

So we again were very strategic.

We could have drawn a lot more lines to connect to the Vano Creek Trail, for example, as the preliminary proposal back in 2024 did, but uh it had too many impacts to sensitive lands as well as to private property owners.

So again, it's just it's that balancing act.

Um so we ask that you consider kind of these criteria or versions of them as you kind of think about the draft proposal and either direct us to refine something or have a question about something.

Um but hopefully you have enough familiarity with it now that you have some feedback for us about uh you know what you what do you like about it or what you would like to see changed about it.

Because I think the next slide, if you can go there, is like some specific questions we have for you that we'd like you to weigh in on.

Uh the first three are really related to some specific transportation facilities because they really do have policy implications.

Um, sometimes we just think like a street is a street is a street, but it's not.

If you put a bike lane on a street, it's different than one without it, and that's a policy consideration.

Um so like I'm I'm actually hoping if it's possible to even bring up the attachment number two that's online.

No, it's not possible.

Um we have on our screen.

Okay, so it's fine.

I was just realizing that I yeah, that I couldn't just roll through that to because as I've been doing in my other presentations.

Um there is um in your attachment two, which is available online for the public, um, there is a map that identifies what P2, C4, and N1 are they're very specific street segments that we are wanting to hear council's feedback on again because there's policy trade-offs, and so in the staff report um kind of listed out some of those pros and cons.

There is no right or wrong answer though.

They really are policy questions.

So I'm just gonna go from top to bottom just to kind of set the stage, and then I would love to hear from you.

So right now we are proposing two different kinds of paths.

We could kind of merge them and just have one type of path because there is something to be said for simplicity.

So that's a layer of feedback that we're open to.

Um right now we are proposing like kind of a bigger path width in two very specific locations to really support kind of place making urban areas for future residents because we don't have a lot of uh public space.

We have Universal Plaza, but that's one place and it's all on one side of the railroad tracks.

So for example, one of these larger paths is on the other side of the railroad track to provide kind of almost like think of it like a linear um plaza.

But it is still a transportation network, but it is a place for people to gather and for community to happen.

Um so one question is about like does that make sense to you, the location and um kind of the size of that particular facility.

It's still much smaller than a street, but um like a standard path width would be a minimum of 20 feet, whereas this one would be proposed at a minimum of 40 feet uh to provide pedestrian and bicycle access as well as kind of like an urban living room of sorts, um allowing people to come and go.

So that's one question.

And then the C4 street is about a one-way street kind of that uh is part of a three different one-way streets.

Did you like I'm happy if you I think I think we were maybe pause folks any question before we go into any deadline?

So council member, do you have any questions?

Go ahead, Council Robbins.

Thank you, Mary.

Thank you for this presentation.

Um I do have a question for for the paths.

I I don't see um so I'm looking at slide page five, and also page four is the map, and I see P1 and P2 of various places.

And um staff recommends the inclusion of the wider paths, P2 and strategic locations to do all these things.

Um what if we say no, we don't want that?

Would all of the P2s turn into P1s?

Or would they just not exist?

Um that's really up to you.

We um think that something is needed there.

So, like they could, for example, become streets.

Um that's another option.

We're um we recommended the path to try to minimize impacts while providing that kind of multimodal connectivity.

Um, because uh even the wider path is less wide than even a local street.

Um so if you um if there's a desire to have them not be like that wider path, they could be a narrow path, or they could be a street, depends on which way you want it to go.

But that's a really great question.

This is our recommendation, but um, like I said, there are no right or wrong answers.

It's really about um what you think is like the best policy decision in terms of the benefits.

And currently, right now, um where there's the dotted yellow word, so proposed path, there's nothing there.

Correct.

Okay.

Um same with any other dotted line, there is no transportation facility there, whether it's a street or a path or a trail.

And those are the places that um so are those the little gray lines underlying some of these lines are those boundaries of property lines boundaries.

Correct.

Okay.

Um so just one more question.

So the path that would be um a P2 path coming perpendicular off of Ash Avenue.

It looks like that goes right through somebody's property.

So would we have to purchase that property or get an easement?

No.

Um, so the one that you're talking about, and actually most of them, with the exception of some, but the majority of dotted lines on there are actually on top of property lines.

It's a pretty standard practice with long-range planning when you're trying to kind of create infill streets, is to um basically split the burden and put it on a property line.

So each property holder is responsible for part of that, not the entire thing.

Like I said, that's not the true case for all of the dotted lines, but where it makes sense, we always try to do that.

It's a best practice.

Um and so how that works in general for any of the dotted lines, or even for a street that exists, but maybe let's say like uh there's a street that exists but it doesn't have any sidewalks.

I mean it's more of a common thing that um it's upon redevelopment that we get those improvements.

So it doesn't happen until redevelopment.

Correct.

And it's included with the and then there's this what we call both a nexus um with what's happening on the site, the in like the new impacts, the new transportation impacts that new development would bring, then that um makes it possible for us to ask for the facilities to support the new development.

Okay.

Right.

After all those questions, I I support these paths.

I think it looks nice.

I really like the idea of the street trees, or I guess in this place, path trees to really bring more shade and more cooling that we get a lot of heat, especially in the summer, and then just cement and concrete everywhere doesn't provide that cooling.

So I have a question.

So the for the first three, there are all they all have staff recommendations.

Yes.

Um do you have do you have you heard any concerns from business owner or landowner about any of the staff recommendations?

I haven't heard any about streets.

Mostly it's been about the land use.

Um in that case, I I'm I agree with the first three.

Um I I would I'm agree I I'm fine with the staff recommendation for this first three.

Counselor Shah.

Yeah, I really appreciate the work and thank you, senior planner shanks, and not to throw a wrench in it.

Um started in COVID 2020.

And as we know, there had been a hiatus uh because of staffing issues.

Um I do feel personally that I think that policy implementation is premature.

I think these questions are premature.

Um we have since had an economic development strategy put in place.

Um I don't see where this might marry or kind of fit.

I also think we're gonna see this online survey with our downtown uh businesses, and I would love to see their feedback first before we made any policy implementations.

Um I'm and also I think some of the data we know there will not be any foreseeable future of light rail coming through.

Some of that data is included in there.

So um I'm just not prepared uh for those reasons, and plus um it should be uh passed tonight, but we will have a new city manager who this will be somewhat new to seems to me um it might make sense to do like a work study or like a half-day workshop where we can really kind of see how all these pieces fit together.

So we're working on one cohesive strategy instead of piecemealing different um city future activities that may or may not work.

But again, I uh having been here since 2020, I appreciate all the work, appreciate all the work you've done.

I just think it's premature for any policy implementations or suggestions.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you.

Consider Brass and Wolf.

Thank you, Mayor.

And thank you, Counselor Shaw.

And Susan, um, really appreciate the packet that was put together and especially the link to the business uh work session that you held.

I listened to the QA component and to Counselor Shaw's point, um there were just some great references.

I think Tiffany, I think you all recognize what I heard in the questions of business folks is we've got all these layers.

Uh really interested in economic development, really interested in, I think Tiffany said, how do we meet our current needs and build to our future?

And it was hang in there, we're working on our you know, strategic transportation or GSP.

Um so, like Counselor Shaw, I'm not opposed to staff recommendations, but I feel like people want to see that connection to the pillar that Sean referenced, the development placement uh uh economic development strategic plan pillar.

I want to see that.

I want to see currently how does this impact me as a business owner, and then strategically, where are we headed downtown?

And and I don't know if I'm asking for a genie to pop out of a bottle to say, can we stack all those pieces together?

But like Counselor Shaw's point, that would be fantastic to really see how do we impact today, how are we driving economic development?

And yeah, we've got you in the long run because they all align.

So that's where I sit.

So not in opposition, but in curiosity of where we're headed collectively.

So I hope that's helpful.

Yeah.

And that kind of jumps to feedback, I suppose.

But really appreciated the opportunity to watch that video.

So thank you for posting and sharing that online for really anyone because it's on the site.

So thank you.

All right, counselor Schlack.

Thank you, Mayor.

I uh agree with Council President Wolf and Counselor Sean for those reasons.

I would be hesitant to provide a preference at this time, knowing that decisions would be taken off of it.

I think sort of to just repeat what they said, at least from my perspective.

There's just a lot of moving parts with a lot of really great long-term projects that community development is working on, and it's a bit hard for me to follow all of them at once.

So there's a lot of moving parts here that I'd love to better understand before providing preferences.

That's just my viewpoint.

Counselor Anderson, I think it looks good.

I think uh one, two, three.

I I like the uh staff recommendation.

Uh the land use development standards, it just depends on on you've got some mixed-use residential and you've got some mixed-use commercial.

What if a developer has an idea you know to bleed over into that area?

Are there room for variances for that?

Um, as a starting point, I think this is good.

Can I go?

Can I respond to some questions and because it's very helpful.

Um so counselor Anderson, so with um taking the one zone, the one mixed use zone, and just making two mixed-use zones, and then it would also incorporate the mixed-use employment area that is currently zoned that way, but incorporate some of that into the plan district.

Um, but just with regard to the mixed-use commercial and mixed-use residential and like kind of the core of downtown, that the there are some differences in terms of the land uses allowed in those two zones.

Um, but both would support commercial and residential.

And the what we're doing with trying to do with the standards is to foster more residential in places where there already is residential, which is not to say that commercial that is very compatible with residential, like office use, for example, couldn't also be there as well.

So it's actually not necessarily excluding, but it's more driving a certain um kind of mix in certain locations, but allowing basically many things together.

I mean, we we want to see the it's very much an efficient like land use um approach to have the a mixed-use building.

But if we had a standalone residential building, which we have many of right now, or if we have a standalone commercial building, both of those are also um okay in both locations.

Um in terms of uh I hesitate to use the word variance because it means something very specific to certain people, but um in our code, we um we have what we're calling uh restrictions.

So something that is a restricted land use, like let's say retail is restricted.

The restriction is not a prohibition of the use at all.

It's um it usually relates to the form of that development.

So for like retail, because of the nature of downtown, we don't want to see a Walmart come in.

And on some of our like our neighboring lot, which is ginormous, a Walmart could come in.

Um so the restriction on a retail use is that it can't be like greater than 60,000 square feet in size.

So there's some detail that y'all haven't seen yet because it's so much they there is so much detail in doing these kinds of um projects, and we don't want to completely overwhelm you.

And you would see kind of that uh the next layer down of detail um with regard to like what some of the like kind of um finer grain restrictions would be.

Um, but would still allow kind of all the things that you we have in downtown for the most part and expect to see in like kind of in our urban city center um area.

Um there's definitely a lot of flexibility in there.

So but thank you for that, like that helps me understand where how you're thinking about it.

Um with regard to the we want um to understand more about all these different layers, which I'm a big picture person, I want to see how things connect as well.

And so I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I'm looking at Councillor Schlack and Wolf and Shaw, is that um like you mentioned like TIFF district, and I hope you got the map.

Okay, great.

Um so TIF district, TSP, our transportation system plan, because there's gonna be an um an update effort uh shortly, um, and also the ECDev strategy.

I'm hearing that like you want to understand how these things relate to each other because they are different layers, and in some respects, um they um they some of them don't really like like super relate, but they also don't uh inhibit or conflict.

Um but it sounds like we need to better uh explain kind of the different layers and how it all applies and and just the nature of development and then planning for future development with regulations is that there are these like pots of things, and they're meant to be these discrete pots, and um like we can't put the ec dev strategy into the development code, like that doesn't make sense.

So um uh all these different documents and these different um both programmatic as well as regulatory um kinds of things um do weave together and we want to have them all be very compatible and um reinforcing and it sounds like we need to better connect the dots for you about how those all those things work.

Would that be like a somewhat accurate summary?

And relative to those things and like with the TSP update coming, um, and in some ways I mean the thing is because we can never update everything all at once.

There's always going to be uh like sometimes like the timing can be perfect and you build and you understand like you started here and then you end up here and it all like you know, kind of builds, but sometimes life is messier than that.

Um but there's definitely with the TSP update around the corner, that this work would actually inform that work.

So that's actually lined up really well.

Like what basically uh ends up going forward here would end up in the TSP.

We wouldn't start like then take another look at downtown transportation network.

Um because the TSP is citywide, and there are these special planning areas where you do a deeper dive.

Um, but the deeper dive would is being done with this project essentially.

Um but so that's just one example.

And honestly, I'm I'm not the ECDEV manager.

Um I don't know if Sambo is still here, if if she can more respond to that, but um because I'm not as familiar with the ECDEV strategy, um, I know a little bit about of it, but probably not enough.

I think my concern I understand what the counselor is saying, but my concern is that do you understand what they need exactly before I just don't want this to drag on definitely.

So go ahead.

Yeah, well, it uh my understanding is like to help you understand those different pieces and how they work together.

Okay, and that's not gonna delay implementation of this co-writing.

I'm sorry, I didn't hear that.

I just don't want this to be an open-ended request.

I want a define solution, resolution to their satisfaction.

So can you I personally don't quite don't get it, but go ahead.

Well, I was gonna say, I think it's a reasonable thing that we could kind of create something either if it's just a study session or if it's an actual document, but to to help that under or the one-on-ones, but I I actually think that there is a way to respond and help you.

That's Samba, what do you think?

Yeah, I guess I wanted to jump in because I appreciate seeking clarity.

Um just speaking for myself, what I heard as I listened to businesses is also there, I mean, all uh a lot of those individuals are the ones that put set sweat equity and investment in our downtown to start us moving in a different way.

So what I heard as I listened is also wanting that clarity.

How does that going to impact how we and it covered soup to nuts, right?

Long-term, short-term, land use, um, historical buildings.

I mean, I learned a lot just by listening to the questions and the responses you all gave.

Um, but I'm feeling like there's curiosities there, not to mention Travis, but just questions and curiosities about how does this all fit together, how is this moving tiger downtown forward, and how does it hit our economic plan.

So for me, it's not only I would appreciate the education, but that we're getting the support, which maybe goes through the survey, right?

That's that's still outstanding.

And how do we really make sure we have high engagement, right?

I mean, you all have you know 200 emails that go out and 19 or 30 people show up.

So how do we elevate that so that as a council member, I feel at high confidence that a lot of people contributed and gave feedback.

And in all fairness to you all, that's frustrating, right?

When you try to do outreach and the response back is really limited.

That's unfair as well.

So I'll own that piece too.

But I'm really looking a for education for myself, but also I think that we are doing a better job communicating how we're moving downtown forward, not only for planning, code development, but economic development.

And I don't want to speak for counselor Shaw or Counselor Schlack, but that's and and we can most certainly try to provide some some bridges or connections to it.

But I will I will point out that as part of our processes, um, this isn't done in a in a silo or vacuum.

Um we do have our economic development manager, um Dil Hother, as well as as Tiffan Gherky uh was part of the uh development process.

So we taking the lens of the economic strategic plan as well as taking the lens of what the TSP is about moving forward, those are things that we do also do uh with our internal code team or our teen or internal teams to move the move the policies forward or to at least provide the recommendations that we have here as well.

So for tonight, our our interest is being able to say are we are we in the general direction in understanding the transportation proposal itself?

Because this will help us move the um for the move the TSP forward in its in it in the um work that we're hoping to do in the next couple of years as well.

Um as for the strategic pillars itself, again, in reviewing this, I don't think it it lends us if there's an opportunity for us to provide more engagement, we we're more than happy to do that and and provide come back with what the uh responses are from the survey itself.

But the um overall um pillars and and the and the need for us to maybe um a bit modernize the codes that are down in the downtown area right now, which is one of the things one of the impetus for us to do this work is that it it's a pretty it's a pretty old code for the downtown area.

And it was one of the asks was to say, is there an opportunity for us to um provide other opportunities for development in the area?

So um I'm getting a sense that we may need a little more.

There's still some key questions that you all have when it comes to how the work the um the economic strategic plan layers with this, and we we are I'm happy to come back and provide that information.

But it at the end of this, we'll need to understand is this policy is the direction that we're going towards where we're we're looking at the additional streets and the types of of land use um um land use designations that we have for for the site itself, generally an area in which the council feels confident because we can provide you with how it relates to the strategic plan and how it relates to the TSP, but we also want to ensure that we are at least the council is comfortable with where the work is going.

All right.

Again, I I'm looking at the draft proposal criteria, it's to make development code more flexible.

We want to make it more connected, provide more direct community access to Fennel Creek Trail.

And this is not this is this is not economics development plan.

This is co-zoning.

We cannot force people to come development.

We can only make it easier for people to do it.

So that's why I'm a little unclear on what my colleagues are looking for.

So go ahead, counselor counselor Shaw.

Yeah, I guess I'm now even more concerned.

If you're saying that the policy implication of this and what we you're looking for direction tonight, says that we cannot move with the TSP, we can't move that forward without this, then I'm very concerned.

Um, because then I'd really want to look through a fine-tooth comb on those different alternatives, and I'd really want to hear from business then, since they are the ones as counselor president Wolf and mentioned, the ones that have been investing in downtown, and I'm not sure they've made that connection too, that these decisions tonight could impede or impact the TSP for future.

So even if we put together put aside the economic development strategy, and I appreciate you saying that you've been working in tandem.

Um now I'm probably even more concerned.

And I'll say um I I don't the work that we're doing now in developing um a new transportation network proposal for downtown, uh it doesn't need to happen for the TSP to happen.

It's actually good timing to do this work where we can focus in in a lot of detail on one very important area in uh the city of Tiger because the TSP being citywide, it can't take a microscope to the entire city.

Um it's just the TSP is at the level of the comprehensive plan.

Um it is much more about policy than it is about um exactly the specific standard that a local street needs to be built to, or if this one has an eight-foot sidewalk or a 10-foot sidewalk, which is what our development code does.

And so this actually timing-wise, um, and they don't all work out this way.

This actually helps to inform the TSP work by providing the most recent and up-to-date thinking on what a future street network uh should look like in downtown.

So it doesn't have to do that work.

So it's it's actually really good timing and is not, but but if the TSP update could start tomorrow, um, and if uh even if they were both going in parallel or if this came after it, it's it's neither would really inhibit the others, but it's actually good timing for this to come before because we have the ability to focus on this one area exclusively.

And and maybe it's like so when I say the comprehensive plan, like there is a document that we had.

I'm sorry, so it's already 45 minutes.

So I think a good compromise right now is just to wait for the feedback we get from business and see if there's anything change, and then we can talk about it.

I'm sorry to cut us short, but I think I think I'm I just need a little break right now to understand what we are asking for.

So why don't we just wait and have schedule and not a meeting after we get community feedback to see if any business or I want to have problem with any of the street design and then or any other feedback?

Does that follow up with a we'll start with the study session and move on there?

All right.

All right, thank you so much, Susan.

And uh happy retirement.

Thank you.

All right.

Let's move on to the next item on our agenda.

Uh which is Tiger Home, Housing Opportunity Mobility and Enterprise Project Update.

And we have an associate planner Gomez to give the staff report.

Good evening.

Good evening.

I'm Amber Gomez, associate planner for the City of Tiger and project manager for Tigered Home, Housing Opportunity Mobility and Enterprise.

This evening I will provide an update on engagement efforts for the Tigered Home Project as well as recommended policy approaches based on the input we've received.

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For this presentation, I'll start by reviewing the project timeline, then provide an overview of phase two engagement efforts, go over some of the key takeaways and recommended policy approaches based on those efforts, lay out next steps, and end with requesting feedback from council.

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This phase of the Tigered Home Project kicked off with the engagement plan in June of last year.

Since then, we've carried out 27 engagement events with a plan to wrap up engagement by the end of this summer.

In the fall, we will present the final Tigered Home Community Engagement Report, and we plan to present policy recommendations to planning commission and city council for adoption in 2027.

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As a reminder, we split the Tigered Home Engagement Plan into three phases.

The first phase went from June through October 2025 and gathered input on the types of amenities, shops, and services residents want in Tigered neighborhoods.

Last month we wrapped up the second phase, which began in November 2025.

This phase focused on gathering input on preferred building forms and locations for these new shops and services.

Phase three is shorter and is planned to begin and end this summer.

This phase will seek feedback on the recommended policy approaches based on the first two phases of community engagement.

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Since June 2025, as I mentioned, we have completed 27 community engagement events, including 16 tabling events, five community-based organization targeted outreach events, three community dinners, and three pop-up events.

More than a thousand community members have directly participated in these events and activities.

Throughout both phases of engagement, we have continued to use a variety of activities to get input on Tigered Home, including small focus groups, one-on-one conversations, using blocks to build a dream neighborhood, preference surveys, mapping activities, and community vision boards.

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Next, we will discuss some of the key takeaways from phase two of engagement and recommended policy approaches based on those takeaways.

At the end of this presentation, we'll ask council if staff should move forward with drafting policies based on these recommendations, as well as engage with the public about the recommendations in the final phase of engagement.

No formal adoption of policy approaches is happening at this time, and final policy recommendations could change following the final round of public engagement.

To start, here we have developed a recommended business types framework.

As staff have been discussing how to introduce small-scale shops and services in Tigered neighborhoods, is become clear that this is intertwined with how we currently regulate businesses conducted from residences called home occupations.

This framework outlines three different business types and recommendations for how they should be reviewed to ensure consistent approach based on relative impacts.

The first type, called home occupations, consists of businesses that have little to no impacts to surrounding properties, such as bookkeeping, off-site services, or someone who sells items online.

In many cases, there may be no external indication that any business is taking place within the residence.

Because of the low impacts, staff recommend home occupations be allowed by right and subject to minimal standards.

The second type, called home businesses would have minimal impacts to surrounding properties and includes examples such as in-person tutoring, therapy, or a barber.

Because more impacts are anticipated as customers or clients would be coming to the residence, more standards are recommended, and this type of business would be subject to a type one review.

The third type, called neighborhood scale commercial, encompasses the new neighborhood shops and services that could be allowed in residential areas as a key component of the Tigered Home Project.

Examples include a corner market or a small restaurant, and they would be subject to the most standards as this business type would have the most impacts to surrounding properties.

We recommend this type of business require a type 2 review, which would require notice to neighboring properties.

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To go with the recommended business types framework, we have also prepared a recommended standards framework.

This framework is not proposing specific standards at this point that would apply to each business type.

Rather, it outlines the level of standards that would apply for different business types.

For example, operating hours is one of the items listed here.

At this time, we're not proposing the specific hours that businesses would be restricted to, but rather the level of restriction that would apply to the different business types.

Starting with home occupations, which are recommended to be allowed by right, no employees or customers would be allowed, minimal outdoor activity would be allowed, and because of the nature of the business, operating hours would be largely unrestricted.

And because home occupations would be allowed in virtually any residence, there are no building or site design standards or location restrictions, and signage would not be allowed.

Home businesses would allow outside employees and customers on site, but the total number would be restricted or may require appointments.

Some outdoor activity may be allowed but restricted, and operating hours would also be restricted.

Again, since home businesses would be allowed in most residences, there would only be minimal building and site design standards.

Signage would be allowed but restricted.

Finally, as business open to the general public, neighborhood scale commercial would not restrict the number of employees or customers.

Due to their presence in a neighborhood, operating hours and outdoor activity would be restricted.

Neighborhood scale commercial be subject to the most building and site design standards of any of the business types.

They would also be restricted in where they can locate and would have restrictions and standards for signage.

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Here we have a recommended approach to building design standards for neighborhood scale commercial businesses.

The staff recommendation is to develop standards to allow neighborhood scale commercial to take place in a variety of building forms.

When asking people about design preferences, participants liked both traditional craftsman style architecture with designs that evoke the Pacific Northwest, as well as more modern aesthetics.

Across the different engagement events, we also asked the community about their preferences for the type of building neighborhood scale commercial businesses should locate it in.

Examples included existing houses that have been adaptively reused, mixed-use buildings with commercial on the bottom floor and residences above, accessory commercial units, which are small commercial spaces on the same property as a residence, and standalone commercial buildings with no residential component.

No clear favorite among the different building types emerged, nor did any type stand out as particularly disliked.

A couple people asked if standalone commercial businesses or standalone commercial buildings could potentially reduce housing supply, but staff believe the likelihood of this happening is very low.

Based on the overall input, staff recommend developing standards that allow a variety of build different building forms for neighborhood scale shops and services.

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Finally, staff recommend restricting where neighborhood scale commercial businesses can locate.

To engage folks, we use mapping activities, visualizations, and preference surveys to ask community members where they would like to see neighborhood scale commercial buildings in tigered neighborhoods.

We asked both about specific locations or areas that might be well suited, as well as types of locations, such as along main roads, clustered around intersections, near parks and trails, or anywhere.

Overall, there was a preference for neighborhood shops to be located more along main roads.

This benefits businesses in terms of visibility and provides easy access for residents and neighborhoods while limiting commercial activity on quieter local streets.

The exact determination of which streets are considered main roads is still to be determined, but could, for example, be defined by road classification.

Shops and services locating near parks and trailheads was also popular among the community.

Many participants like the idea of being able to stop and buy a drink or snack while recreating in a park or walking along a trail.

However, there were a number of folks who would prefer to keep these areas quiet and tranquil.

This is a policy area that will that will require more consideration.

In the meantime, staff recommend developing standards to only allow neighborhood scale commercial businesses on main roads.

Another theme that has come up across engagement events is the importance of having safe walking routes to get to new shops and services.

Community members share that it is important for walkability to have both destinations that they want to walk to, as well as a safe way to walk there.

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That concludes the recommended policy approaches and takeaways from engagement.

The next steps for the Tigered Home project are to complete phase three of community engagement and draft the final community engagement report.

During this time, staff will continue to draft potential code and policy recommendations.

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That is the end of my presentation.

We do have a couple questions we'd like to get council's feedback on.

First, should staff proceed with developing regulations based on the recommended policy approaches.

As I mentioned earlier, nothing is being formally adopted at this time, and that for the third phase of engagement, we'll share the information and policy approaches in this presentation with the community.

Depending on the feedback we receive, there could be some changes to the final policy recommendations for Tigered Home.

Second, are there any particular elements of the policy approaches that council would like staff to highlight when seeking feedback during the final phase of community engagement?

Thank you.

Thank you.

This time we'll start with on this end.

Let's see if counselor Anderson have any questions or common.

No, it looks good.

I think we just uh wait for the um the feedback.

Are there any speci I guess what specific businesses have been coming to you, if any?

Do you mean businesses that would be like interested in opening this sort of neighborhood commercial?

I've been waiting for this.

I would love to do this.

I cut hair or I do X.

What kind of feedback have you got there?

Yeah, uh we have heard from a few businesses or people that own or interest are or are interested in owning businesses that could open up in this neighborhood scale commercial concept.

Um I don't know that all those businesses are like existing now, so I can't name them, but there have been people we've heard from that are interested in doing this sort of thing.

Do you do you uh Mr.

Miller, can you leave the last question slide up on the screen for discussion?

So the questions are should stop or see was it developing regulation based on the recommended policy approaches, or are there any particular elements of the policy approaches that the city council would like to stop to highlight when seeking feedback during the final phase of coming engagement?

I would say that yeah, you can proceed.

Okay.

Until you're you know your final feedback that you you're coming up with.

And I don't have any particular allowments at this time.

Okay.

Council Schlack.

Yeah, I'm fine with um definitely for proceeding with the home occupations and home businesses portion of it.

Uh I'm still trying to wrap my head around the neighborhood scale commercial, and I think that's really contingent on what we would define as main streets, looking at some of the examples there.

Um I think you know, if someone's gonna use looking at the examples you have for home businesses if someone wants to have an in-home barber business and they want to put a sign up, for instance, under the restricted code like that.

I can imagine that pretty easily, but um someone putting in a corner market or a small restaurant feels really contingent on where that would be located.

So that's the main information I'd want to see there.

Um moving forward.

That's that's my feedback.

Thank you.

Council President Wolf.

Yeah.

Um Thank you so much, Amory.

And I appreciate uh counselor Anderson and Councillor Schlack's comments, and I have nothing to add, so thank you.

Thank you, Councillor Shaw.

Uh thank you.

Uh similar with counselors Anderson and SLAC.

Um occupation's home business.

I think you'll just work out the details.

Uh the neighborhood scale commercial could be uh depending on what main roads are defined as, and that actually goes to our earlier discussion on the previous item.

So um that's something I'd want to see a little bit more detail on.

Thank you.

Counselor Robins.

Thank you.

Um I think this is an exciting project.

I've been waiting for this for like a year since it was first was announced.

I personally, my hairdresser does have like a home business like this where he built a little separate ADU and it has a little sign.

It's an it's in Portland, but it it looks great.

And um, so I don't have any problems with that.

Like everyone else, I do have concerns about what a main road means, and I really don't like that idea because I think that it if we're restricting it to what I imagine a main road being a busier road, there's not a lot of main roads running through most neighborhoods, so it really would limit the the amount of variety that we'd get within the neighborhoods.

And so um that doesn't mean I have the right answer, but I really don't like that restriction as much as something a little more open and just say maybe the the size of the road or the traffic of the road would somehow guide or limit the the size of the business you could have.

You know, you want some huge restaurant on a little neighborhood street, but if somebody wants to have three or four tables for a coffee shop, maybe that's okay.

I don't I don't know.

Um I am curious.

One thing I haven't seen is any negative feedback.

You know, we have a lot of they like this, they like this, they didn't really care about this.

But what have you heard from what do we not know, right?

About who's saying this is a terrible idea.

If anyone, maybe nobody.

Yeah, luckily, not too many people are saying it's a terrible idea.

Um overwhelmingly, I hear a lot of support for the project, and most of the people who do have concerns are interested in the idea, um, but they do have concerns on things like noise or um you know traffic on their local streets and wanting to make sure that they still feel safe walking around and having their kids play around in their neighborhood and things like that.

Um so I'd say those are some of the main concerns as well as um you know, people often think worst-case scenario about the types of businesses that might open.

So there's definitely a lot of um questions about the particular uses that would be allowed as well.

So my feedback would then would be that and the the final presentation that we have a little little picture of what some of those concerns might be and what the city will do to minimize impacts because I would feel more comfortable voting for that.

But with that being said, I do support this.

Yeah.

Yeah, I I do so I also support proceeding.

Um like some counselors, the rest rest the counselors.

Um I guess it's a very variation of the same thing.

I just uh during the study session, I I still express concern about the difference between home business and neighbors neighborhood scale commercial, right?

Because if we say two tables are home business, but three are neighborhood scale commercial, why does that make sense?

Right?

And I I understand that you know, if you know, fund noise concern, right?

So we want we don't want small, we want we don't want home businesses that are creating noises to being neighborhoods.

So that distinction I really want us to drill down in addition to what the definition of main road.

So yeah, so that's my request.

So all right.

So I looks like everybody's in it it's a consensus that we will go forward, but we really need better definition on some of the terms.

So all right.

Do you have everything you need from us?

Absolutely, thank you.

Uh counselor Schwack, do you have any?

Yeah, and I think the example when it comes sort of what you said around home businesses and neighborhood scale commercial job sort of made me think about this.

I feel like what we really start getting into, like we're splitting hairs is really unlike food services as an example.

So that it may be helpful better to understand how that sort of fits into this.

Because I don't think anyone has any concerns around in-person tutoring or bookkeeping or sort of those things.

It's really the ones where people are coming in, they're staying, they're making noise, there's food waste potentially involved.

And I think that's the the example I keep getting hung up on, and I just wanted to add that since it relates to what you said.

Thank you.

Okay.

All right, thank you so much.

All right, so let's uh move on to the next uh item on the agenda, which is consider city manager employment contract.

Human resources director Gomez will give the staff report.

Good evening.

I am actually excited to be here tonight and to wrap this up with this great announcement.

So for the record, my name is Laura Gilmez.

I'm the HR director for the City of Tiger.

Um as you know that we uh with council's direction partnered with Profman to recruit and select and identify a new city manager for the city of Tiger.

And in June, council was able to identify three finalists, and quickly within a couple of weeks, we moved to uh in-person interviews with the class staff and community meet and greet, followed by three panels because it consisted of leadership team, council and the unions.

After that deliberation last week, council selected uh and identified Brian Raker.

Excited.

And we were able to successfully negotiate uh staff to negotiate a contract with Brian Riger.

And I'm here tonight to ask for council's approval to move forward with the employment agreement.

Are there any questions?

Any questions or comments?

Well, um I I would like to first thanks Brian so much for willing to serve in this road and for the past several months.

Um you've been doing the acting job, and you just you know, I heard so many great things about you providing steady steady leadership and just institutional knowledge in time now we really need it.

So um as Laura mentioned, um we have uh three panels uh interviews.

I want to thank all the you know uh C the CD leadership team and as well as union members for uh for providing valuable feedback, they were very helpful to me personally as well as well as the community member panel and you know open house.

You know, we read all the comments, so I really appreciate them.

But anyway, um I really look forward to uh working with Brian in our next chapter, and hopefully we can um just move on with with a lot of important stuff ahead of us.

So thank you so much.

All right, with that, uh any comment, any further comments or motions.

Mayor, I move to approve the city manager employment contract with Brian Raker.

I'll second the motion.

Any further discussion?

Go ahead.

Just to add on the record that I'm excited to work with you, Brian, and in your new role uh at the city.

Um you have been an exemplary uh public servant in my opinion, and I look forward to seeing what you bring to this role and helping lead this organization over the next few years.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Oh, with that, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed say nay.

The motion is adopted by unanimous vote of the council present.

Congratulations.

Would you like to say anything, Brian?

I was I was given a a gift before the meeting.

There we go.

I just want to thank you all uh for your confidence in me.

I will uh I will do my very best for you, and I look forward to getting to know each of you a little bit more uh as we go forward.

And uh thank you, uh Laura for just leading a great great process.

I'm actually glad that the meet and greet was first uh because I was a little more uh angsty about that than I it set me up well for the uh the panel interviews the next day.

Um that was that was quite a process, but um yeah, again, just thank you very much for the opportunity.

Looking forward to it.

Thank you, Brian.

All right, so uh we have non uh no executive session schedule and no non agenda item.

So there being no addition item.

This meeting adjourned.

Good night, Tiger.