Welcome to the December 8th, 2025 Towalton City Council meeting.

I'll go ahead and call this meeting to order, and our first item on the agenda is a Pledge of Allegiance.

Usually it's led by a city councilor, but tonight we have approximately 10 Eagle Scouts here.

And so I'm going to ask the Eagle Scouts to lead the Pledge of Allegiance tonight.

One nation under God, individual with the liberty and justice.

Thank you, Scouts.

All right.

So our first I'm announcements, and that is the Eagle Scout recognition.

The event everyone's eagerly waiting for tonight.

Jackie, come on up.

Thank you, Mayor.

Good evening, Mayors and Counselors.

I'm pleased to be here tonight to introduce you to the 10 Eagle Scouts who have completed projects in our community from summer of 2024 through fall of 2025.

Where are Eagle Scouts projects come from or from our parks maintenance team?

Every one of our park technicians keeps a close eye on our community assets like fences, benches, trails, artwork.

And once a year or twice a year, we compile a list.

And these candidates have searched our website, have found these projects, and have done the research, uh the legwork, and the boots on the ground to get these projects done.

So I'd like to call our first eagle to the podium, Nicholas Brophi.

So Nicholas took on a very unusual project.

As you know, on the Tualton River Greenway Trail, we have a lot of artwork, including simulated artifacts.

One of the Mastodon tusks was vandalized, and Nicholas did the research, put the time in, and we had a mold for him, but he had to do everything else.

And he made not only one replacement tusk, but two, and one will remain in storage in case that same unfortunate uh occurrence happens again.

In addition, Nicholas made a tutorial on how to do it.

So for other Eagle Scouts in the future, if we need to call on him.

Nicholas is homeschooled.

He lives in the Tiger Towalton School District.

He's from Troop 799 and has been a scout for 12 years.

Scouting has been very influential in his life during our interview at the end of his project.

You can kind of see his work over there and his team.

He said in Scouts he has learned many valuable leadership skills, made friends, had lots of fun, and learned how to cook great food outdoors like steak and cedar plank salmon.

Nice.

He has completed 22 merit badges, and his favorite has been wood carving.

He has a goal of carving a custom chess set.

From his work on the Mastodon Tusk project, he's learned all about paperwork and research and what it takes before a project can begin.

His advice for success on projects is to send emails and communicate.

Thank you, Nicholas.

Nicholas, would you like to say anything?

He's the first guy up.

He had no more.

So we'll give a moment.

You'd like to say anything.

Nothing comes to mind.

That pretty much covers everything.

All right.

Well, congratulations.

Would you like to step up to the podium?

Also, he would have to go through, so we do a photo.

Thank you, Nicholas.

I'd like to call Nico Cohn to the podium, please.

Nico tackled the Venetia Trail stair project.

There were a lot of stairs, not just one staircase, but two.

Nico is from Twalton High School.

He's with Troop 530, which has a long history in our community.

He's been in scouting for nine years.

He replaced the anti-slip treads on two staircases, 86 steps.

This involved scraping the old tread, power washing, and installation.

The staircases look brand new.

His favorite thing about the project was the compliments and congratulations he received about the work and the feeling of a job well done.

His biggest surprise about the project was how fast his volunteers worked.

They completed the project well under the time he estimated.

Scouting has influenced Nico by the skills he has learned, the friends he has made, and by giving him an opportunity to serve the community.

Nico has earned 29 merit badges, with his favorite being life saving in water.

His advice for scouts be good at communicating with adult leaders and talk less and listen more.

All right.

Well, this is your opportunity to speak, Nico.

I'd like to thank my fellow scouts and my adult leaders for helping me and uh just guiding me through the journey and my parents as well for sacrificing their time to help me with my project and get my merit badges done.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Sorry, the video.

I need to like to call to the podium Cole Helland.

So Cole tackled the split rail fence at Jurgens Park.

He is from Twalleton High School, Troop 530, and has been in scouting for 10 years.

Cole completely rebuilt eight sections of split rail fence at Jurgens Park.

The fence was 25 years old and compromised due to dry rot and aging.

His project complemented the other additions to the park, including the two new play structures.

Cole's favorite thing about the project was seeing it come together after all of the planning and organizing.

He prepared for the project by getting advice for others and YouTube videos.

Scouting for Cole has provided the opportunity to build life skills such as survival, fitness, and camping.

He has learned through scouting the importance of communication and how to convey messages and ideas in a way that is helpful and useful.

Cole has 36 merit badges, with his favorite being bugling and taps and revel.

Cole's advice for scouts.

Go for your eagle.

Work on the requirement badges first.

Cole.

Floor is yours.

I would just like to thank the city for being willing to drill the holes in advance and purchase the wood.

That was a huge help.

And so I just brought the people and we just uh we we got it done one rainy Saturday morning.

So I'm really appreciative of that.

And I'm also really would like to extend a thanks to all the adult leaders who helped me and advised me.

It was their advice was made the project happen.

It was it was very useful.

Nice.

Thank you.

All right.

That's one of the projects that park is right near me.

And I noticed immediately, yeah, the fence was falling apart then magically in a few days.

I'm like, holy cool.

It's all new.

Thank you.

I'd like to call to the table Windsor Lane.

Windsor and our next candidate Alexander Lane.

Um I first met them during COVID.

We started a new volunteer program in our city called Do It Yourself Volunteering.

And Windsor and Alexander's parents, Courtney and Darty were among the first people to join that program.

And they were out for two and a half, maybe three years picking up trash along the Twalton River Greenway Trail.

So you've come a long way.

So Windsor refurbished three benches at Atfality Park.

She is from Wilsonville High School, and she is in a Troop 555 or the triple nickels.

She has been in scouting for seven years.

Windsor took three benches completely apart.

She planed the wood, sanded, reconditioned it, or replaced the boards.

She cleaned and painted the brackets and cleaned all of the area around the benches.

Her favorite thing about the project was getting outside and doing something.

I quote, it was fun to actually build something that looked amazing.

Her takeaway from the project were leadership and communication, and a again, I quote, love hate relationship with emails.

Windsor was inspired by her brothers to get into scouting.

She loves the people, activities, hiking, camping, and backpacking.

She has 32 merit badges, with her favorite being archery.

Her advice for scouts, don't wait until the last minute small things will get big.

Alright.

Windsor, anything to say?

The City of Twalton has been really amazing in being so flexible with the switch between my project and the one I did for West Lynn.

So I just want to thank you all for that.

That was a big help.

Nice.

Glad it worked out for you.

Well, thank you.

Xander Lane.

Xander refurbished and repaired three benches at Atfality Park.

He is from Wilsonville High School, Troop 149, and 11 years in scouting.

Xander took three benches apart.

The wood was replaced, refurbished, planed, sanded, stained, and reassembled.

Brackets were cleaned and painted, and the areas around the benches were cleaned.

His favorite thing about the project was working with volunteers, leading them through the project and seeing the final results.

Small frustrations about the project were leading younger scouts and small setbacks like stripped bolts and chipped metal.

Xander's scouting experiences have influenced his love of people, teamwork, leadership, and being outdoors.

Scouting has helped him learn about life and how to be better.

He has 22 merit badges, with his favorite being first aid.

His advice for scouts.

Always have a plan for what you are doing and stay on top of it.

Xander.

One thing about the benches is I always hear from our seniors that they very much appreciate a really good bench.

You know, they're walking around and so do kids.

And the value of park benches are usually sometimes overlooked.

But for many folks, it makes a difference when they're walking around the park or through a town.

So thank you for reconditioning the benches.

Jackson replaced 72 feet of guardrail at Chwalton Community Park.

He is from Jesuit High School, Troop 605, and has been in scouting for 11 years.

Jackson replaced a 32-year-old guardrail between the playground and boat launch parking.

This structure is very important.

It guides foot traffic, vehicle parking, and the safety of the sand and water play area.

Jackson described the project as being the culmination of everything he's learned and experienced in scouting.

He applied the principles of leadership, time management, delegation, and organization to be successful in his project.

His favorite thing about the project was getting to see how far he's come in his scouting journey.

His first scouting project was simply hauling gravel in a wheelbarrow.

His biggest surprise about the project was once things were situated, how well everyone worked together from ages 11 to adults, and I quote, they were as a single organism.

He has 25 merit badges, with the favorite being Wilderness Survival.

Advice to Scouts.

Take your time to enjoy every bit of it, every experience.

First off, oh sorry.

And also just funding and supporting me throughout my scouting journey.

So thank you, Mom and Dad.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Our next scout, Grayson Richard, is absent this evening.

He refurbished, cleaned, repaired, and sanded and stained 15 benches at Commons Lake Park.

Those benches are between 25 and 30 years old.

He is from Towallaton High School, Troop 799, and Grayson has been in scouting for nine years.

The teak benches are between 25 and 35 years old.

Part of their longevity is because of a good maintenance schedule.

Scouts have been contributing to bench maintenance for many years.

Grayson's project was a two-day undertaking requiring many steps in the maintenance and care of the benches.

The hardest part of the project was getting all of the needed signatures and keeping track of paperwork details.

And he did not plan for the extra trips to Home Depot.

Of his merit badges, his favorite was citizenship of the world.

His advice, don't quit scouts.

Scouts will bring you the most wonderful memories and experiences you will have in your young life.

Thank you, Grayson.

Call to the table Spencer Psy.

Spencer repaired the concrete wall behind the baseball diamond at Fallady Park.

Spencer goes to school at Catelyn Gable.

He is from Troop 432.

He has been in scouting for 10 years.

The concrete wall behind the backstock was deteriorating, where the metal safety fencing was attached to the wall.

Spencer repaired several contact points along the wall, doing the research on how to patch the wall and repair the effects of aging due to weather.

After the repairs were made, Spencer and volunteers painted the wall and the fencing.

The learning curve for Spencer was learning about concrete and acrylic fortifiers and having the patience to try five times to get it right.

The best part of the project was seeing the end results and how great it turned out.

Spencer has 35 merit badges, with favorites being fishing and scuba diving certification.

His advice for scouts, take time with friends and enjoy the moment.

Spencer.

Congratulations.

Ryan Weinstein is not with us tonight.

He will be uh checking the city's website.

He's in school at in Florida right now.

Ryan completed the split rail fence at Jurgens Park.

He is from Twalleton High School, Troop 530.

Ryan was in scouting for six years.

The West Fence at Jurgens Park had deteriorated due to weather and age.

Ryan removed the old fencing and replaced fence panels and 200 feet of wire.

He also spread bark chips on a large planting bed adjacent to the fence.

Ryan's favorite part of the project was removing old fence posts and using tools like a jack, hand tools, and a staple gun.

As the leader of the project, Ryan's biggest challenge was trying to be everywhere during the project.

Ryan has 22 merit badges, with the favorite being climbing.

His advice for scouts start early so you can enjoy the fun stuff.

Ryan's mom's here tonight, which is nice.

I call to the table Sid Velonkey.

Sid had a fence rebuild at Browns Ferry Park.

Sid is from Jesuit High School, Troop 605, and has been in scouting for six years.

The Brownsferry Park fence around the pond had deteriorated and panels were in need of repair.

Sid replaced four vertical posts and six fence panel frames.

Sid was the first scout to tackle this project, so he worked closely with city staff to determine the scope of work and best practices.

The project changed two times.

Sid had to communicate often and be flexible to get the project off the ground.

The best part of the project for Sid was installing the posts and tamping the gravel.

The challenge of the post was having to redo the work to achieve level.

The biggest surprise of the project is that Sid had planned on a two-day project, and he and his volunteer team finished in one day.

Advice for scouts, enjoy the process on getting to Eagle and don't focus only on getting it done.

Sid.

So you have to kind of adjust.

Congratulations.

I'd like to thank all the scouts.

They were amazing to work with, they were professional, they were earnest, they were determined, and all of the projects were completed with great expertise.

Thank you, Scouts.

Yes.

I'd like to add, thank you very much.

It's to Twalton's benefit that you all, I mean, you as we heard you're not all from Twalton, so it's fantastic that we get the benefit of your expertise, your knowledge, and your volunteerism to you know make our community better.

And I bring again very much want to thank you for all that time and effort.

Your planning, your coordinating.

As a former scout, I never got to Eagle Scout.

Um, but you know, the recurring theme I heard in all your advice was you know, enjoy the ride, take your time, enjoy getting the badges, don't rush it.

I've seen uh folks in the scouting who got the Eagle Scout.

It seems like in a matter of a handful of years.

Um to me that's the goal is not to rush through it, it's to again like all you uh wisely said enjoy it.

Take your time.

You know, enjoy the fellowship, learn the skills of the scouts give you, and in uh the opportunity for personal growth.

Uh I think that's fantastic, and I commend each and every one of you for reaching this thing.

It's not easy to become an Eagle Scout, it's daunting, and you all did it.

So I just want to give another round of applause to all these scouts who made the highest rank there is in scouting.

I believe there's a reception for you folks in the in the lobby, so go enjoy.

You don't have to listen to all this blah blah blah after this.

Okay.

All right.

All right, now we got some empty seats.

Cool.

So that brings us to public comment.

This is an opportunity for anyone to address the city council regarding an item that is not on tonight's agenda.

Please keep your comments about three minutes.

I'll take comments from those folks who are in the room.

What?

Did I skip something?

Oh, a new employee.

Gee, sorry.

Okay, I can't wait for no no.

Mike, come on up.

You gotta have your moment to shine as a new employee.

Come on.

Yeah.

Well, good evening, uh, Mayor Bubenick and members of City Council.

Uh I'm Mike McCarthy, uh city engineer here in Tualton.

It's my pleasure to introduce the newest member of the engineering division of community development, and this is Lauren Irving.

Hello.

Hello.

And uh Lauren started with Twalton on October 27th.

And Lauren grew up near Hilo, Hawaii.

Oh wow.

And then moved to Oregon to get her civil engineering degree from Oregon Institute of Technology.

Uh her work experience includes a few years developing engineering skills at AKS Engineering, designing different projects around the region.

Uh she's also developed her communication and customer service skills.

Working for Disney's a park creator at the Magic Kingdom.

Oh, wow.

And also working at the Lego store.

So we really like the mix of engineering and communication customer service skills.

She'll be getting to apply all of those and more on uh capital projects uh like sewer and stormwater work and helping address citizen concerns like drainage, traffic, and parking, uh including putting together some items for tonight's agenda.

And I know you joined me in welcoming Lauren to City of Twalton.

Yes, welcome.

Thank you.

The floor is yours.

Oh I don't know what else to say.

I feel like everything was on the how's it going so far?

Really great.

I'm very excited to be here and work with all of you.

Everybody's been so welcoming and very helpful.

Like I've never had to, I wasn't scared to ask for help yet, which I think is a very good sign of the community that I'm gonna work with.

All right.

Well, congratulations on uh the position.

Thank you for coming here to the city of Twalton.

Mike and his folks are a trivic group to work with.

Um you probably already heard it, you know, transportation, transportation, traffic traffic traffic, all everything is you know, that's all you're gonna hear the whole time here, which is good.

Uh because we you know our goal is to resolve as many issues as we can.

And we know our community is one of the top uh issues is traffic and um commuting and better transportation options.

So I look forward to seeing uh all your valuable input to the city as all of us do.

And best wishes on your uh new uh position here, and we'll be see you at the breakfast coming up.

All right.

Thank you.

All right, thanks for coming tonight.

Appreciate it.

I'm jumping all over the place tonight, ain't I?

Yeah.

Until it's the end of the end of the year.

All right.

Now can I do consent agenda?

All right.

No public comments no public comments, see?

I'm like, I'm ready to get out of here.

All right.

So public comment.

This is opportunity for anyone to address the council regarding item that is not on tonight's agenda.

Please keep your comments to about three minutes.

There's anyone in the room, I'll take those comments first and then I'll go to Zoom.

Uh, do we have anyone in the room?

I have no one signed up, but you don't have to be signed up for citizen uh resident comment.

I am not seeing any.

Anyone in Zoom?

All right, then I'll move to consent.

Uh consent agenda, those items consider routine.

They'll be adopted by one motion unless someone on council would like an item removed and heard separately later tonight.

Tonight, the consent agenda consists of seven items.

Item number one, consideration of approval of the work session and regular meeting minutes of November 24th, 2025.

Item two, consideration of resolution number five nine three zero-25 for no parking signs along the 68th Avenue North of Southwest Sagart Street at Southwest Boones Ferry Road north of Southwest Iowa Drive.

Item number three, consideration of resolution number 5931-25.

Accepting the system development charge annual reports for fiscal year 2425.

Item number four, consideration of resolution number 5934-25, authorizing the city manager to execute a collective bargaining agreement with the Twalton Police Officers Association.

Awarding the contract for construction of the 108th Reservoir and Pump Station Project.

And finally, item number seven, consideration of resolution number 5938-25, accepting 2024 Urban Area Securities Initiative grant funds to support the Toalta Community Emergency Response Team.

Okay, seeing none.

I move that we adopt the consent agenda as read.

Second.

I have a motion and a second to adopt the consent agenda as read.

Any discussions on those motions.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Okay.

Opposed?

Abstentions.

It's unanimous, 6-0.

All right, moving on to a next item on our agenda is special reports.

The fiscal year 2024-2025, Washington County Housing Department annual report.

And it's Jess, welcome.

Thank you.

Good to see you again.

Good to see you.

Good evening, Mayor, City Councillors.

Pleasure to be with you again.

My name is Jess Larson for the record.

I am an assistant director of the Department of Housing Services.

We're pleased to bring you our annual report this year.

And I'm joined by my lovely colleague Liz.

Okay.

So getting started.

We've uh shared with you all our annual report, and this is a uh uh presentation that will summarize some of the highlights, highlights of our work in the Department of Housing Services, and then we'll have time for your questions that we can um provide answers or get back to you if we aren't able to provide those answers to you tonight.

All right.

Just orienting myself here.

There you are.

Uh so these are the vision and mission statements for our department.

Uh and as we reflect on our last fiscal year in our work to create housing stability and and and create pathways out of homelessness for uh our community members across Washington County.

I think we have some themes that are emerging that you will hear uh repeated throughout our presentation.

Uh there's a lot of work uh hitting the ground in our community, especially thanks to voter approved measures uh here in the region, both with the affordable housing bond and the support of housing services, and some incre in uh important new investments at the state level too.

And in the department, uh we are proud and feeling a sense of stability and kind of hitting our stride as we implement these new programs.

It's been rapid growth over the last uh five or so years, and things are coming into fruition, and we hope that you're seeing that in your community too.

And at the same time, we also see we are uh hitting new headwinds, uh, especially with changes at the federal level that are creating some real instability in funding and just certainty in how we operate our programs.

And so that is a reality in our funding levels, but also in our community, how we continue to show up and respond to the needs when there is increased uncertainty around government's role and response to homelessness and housing stability.

And so in that work, we just feel so grounded and grateful for our partnerships, especially with our city jurisdictions like yours and our community-based service providers, Metro, our state partners, to be able to continue to push through and adjust as we need to to continue serving our community.

So we'll bring those things up to you throughout our presentation.

But we always like to start with a story of impact in our community.

Joanne, pardon me, Jasmine here is one of the community members who moved into a family shelter when she experienced homelessness with her children and now lives in an affordable housing home that is funded through one of our affordable housing programs in the department, specifically the Metro Affordable Housing Bond.

And shares that a lot of times people, when they're in the trenches or their own trenches, they want to give up, but perseverance can get you where you need to go.

She's offering us all some advice and just reflecting on our own journey and how important it was to find her way from shelter to stability now in her own home with her children.

So Jasmine's is one of thousands of stories coming from the various programs operated by our department.

Here are some of those highlights by the numbers you'll find in the report.

So significant need and significant impact through these programs that flow through our department.

This work has included the financing or development of over 26 capital projects.

Sorry, having a hard time reading that slide.

77 households who were helped with a short-term infusion of rent assistance to stabilize their housing.

3100 people who came through one of our shelter programs.

We have over 400 shelter beds that open year year-round 24-765 days a year.

So 3100 people individuals who move through one of those shelter beds.

Some through permanent supportive housing programs, how programs that support people moving out of homelessness, and also with a real focus on serving families.

I think there are several four-bedroom apartments in that building that very rare find, especially in affordable housing in the in the in the region and in Washington County.

So those are some of our successes.

I, as you may know, because I've visited you a couple times, my focus is on the homeless side of the work.

So I will go through some of those highlights for you this evening, and then I will pass the baton to Liz who will outline some of our rent assistance programs and our affordable housing work.

So first stopping on our homeless services work.

We talk about the front door services, how people get into the system when they are experiencing that crisis crisis of homelessness, and we do that work through our outreach providers, housing liaisons or housing navigators, individuals, case managers who are trained to help people navigate the housing system when they experience homelessness and our access centers as well as our shelters, which you'll hear more about on the next slide.

But we have nine geographically distributed outreach teams.

And last year, 80% of the individuals they helped moved into shelter or some other positive exit out of street outreach services.

We also launched new access centers.

These are physically front doors to the system for people who are unsheltered and trying to get connected.

Meals, storage, a safe place to sit down and rest during the day when someone is experiencing homelessness, but importantly, connections to services, referrals to shelter beds.

It's really that front door of our system.

So we didn't have these before the supportive housing services measure.

We've now opened the just compassions in Tiger and are in the process of working on an access center in Cornelius and Hillsboro and with plans ahead for one in Beaverton as well.

And then another highlight is the 682 households who moved out of those housing navigation services and into some other stable housing solution.

Moving forward into our shelter and transitional housing work, I'll move a little more quickly because I've mentioned some of these details, but we've opened new permanent shelters.

These were purpose built facilities.

We used to operate all of our shelter beds pretty much just during the winter and often out of church basements or other places we could find and cobble together volunteer-based services now with these regional resources.

We've been able to invest in capital development of projects that are designed shelter facilities that are designed to provide shelter services and have just begun open opening them.

As I mentioned, Just Compassion site.

Beaverton has also opened their building, and uh, well, it says broke ground on Hillsborough Shelter, but that's a dated statement because we just opened Hillsborough Shelter a couple days ago, a couple weeks ago.

Uh and then we are also in the midst of working on about a hundred um transitional housing units.

These will be like shelter, but longer stays with a programmatic focus of serving people who are in recovery, either through a substance use treatment program or a mental health program where they can get those additional services on site while they have a stable place to call home until they're ready to move on to more independent living.

This is a kind of program we don't quite have readily in Washington County, so we're looking forward to these two sites that will have those programs designed to serve those community members.

All right, well, um, more from me later, but for now I'll move it on to Liz.

Okay.

Thank you, Jess.

Uh, good evening again.

My name is Liz Morris for the record, and I give the honor of serving as the rental assistance division manager within the department and the community.

Um, I am going to talk a little bit about our rental assistance programs, affordable housing, and that's stability.

So, as folks are coming out of homelessness, and we can hopefully get them on that path for stability and maybe further down the road of not even needing any of our direct assistance.

That is also our ultimate goals.

Um, we do this with such community, uh, so many partners with partnering with nearly 1,500 landlords to help serve everybody in Washington County.

So those 20,000 households that Jess had mentioned.

Um, with those households, we are serving over 89 million dollars annually on rental assistance subsidies.

So that's the subsidy part, um making up with the total of the tenants' rent to get out to the landlords as well, helping the economic stability as well.

So with those funds, we're supporting 5300 households.

So those families of that 20,000, it comes down to about 5300 households who are receiving long-term rental assistance.

Over 800 households are receiving short-term rental assistance, and about 2,000 households were able to receive eviction prevention program funds so they could stay stably housed and potentially not need our services or just have that additional stability.

A little bit more about our residents and participants.

We serve over 4200 children in the programs and over 1,400 seniors.

As Jess mentioned, that we do struggle with some headwind from our federal government as they are sunsetting some of our voucher programs and with these local investments are more crucial than ever before.

So as we continue to look at finding ways that we can work with our community partners to ensure that we're able to continue with that stability.

So our affordable housing and supportive communities span the entire county across so this map highlights a lot of our shelters, access centers, transitional housing, properties from our regional affordable housing bond, and some of our county-owned uh affordable housing.

Uh, it's showing some of this reflected right here in your backyard as well.

Uh, what is not technically shown on this map is over nearly the 200 households who are individually receiving assistance, as we obviously don't want to highlight their addresses, but we are proud to be able to serve folks uh right here in Twalton.

Uh as Jess had mentioned, we are lucky that we have the Metro Affordable Housing Bond, which gave us access to programs like Plant Back Gardens and others.

And through this 192 million dollars were allocated to Washington County, and we are on target to exceed our goal of 958 homes that are either open or underway at this point.

So it spans over 12 specific communities.

And as you got to hear a little bit about Jasmine's story, who is one of those who are benefiting from the specific fund.

In addition to building new affordable housing, we want to preserve, like our scouts taught us, you know, with those benches and other things.

We want to preserve what's already out there so we can have the longevity with the communities that have been built.

So with affordable housing preservation portfolio, we have renovated almost 600 affordable homes across 10 properties and invested in 113 million back into our community.

We've also through a Section 18 disposition, which is through home, it's a homeownership transition program from our public housing properties where we've had to uh after decades of federal underfunding on our public housing.

We had to meet the this difficult disposition, a decision to dispose of some of our single family units.

Those households that we did decide that we were no longer going to subsidize and we were going to put back into the market.

We're able to get a voucher, and some of them were even able to buy the homes that they lived in.

And we're really excited and proud of that pathway to home ownership for those households as well.

And then more numbers, the financial overview.

Navigating this foundation is a difficult, it's different challenges with the federal divesting funds and programs that we continue to provide services using flexible resources where we can.

And like Megan, who's in the back room.

I think the next slide has her pictured here with a member from Kim Hawn, who serves on the Twalton Valley Fire and Rescue Team, and Kim Marshall, who's the director of one of our 25 community-based partners providing homeless services at Project Homeless Connect.

So our housing or pardon me, our city liaison programs a position in a variety of our Washington County cities to work day by day, side by side with our staff at the Department of Housing Services and with our community-based providers working in those cities to coordinate services, to be responsive to what's happening at the city library that day or city council that evening or understand the particular needs of any of what's happening in that city and then translate them into the countywide services system to make sure that we are being responsive with our the various programs Liz and I have walked through and being able to meet those very local needs.

So we're thrilled to partner with Megan who serves as the city liaison coordinating these services in the sit for the city of Tiger, Sherwood, and Tualeton.

That work also includes our emergency or e-beds as we call them for short and our shelter programs.

These beds are available only for law enforcement members who are working with someone who might be facing unsheltered homelessness and be willing to go into shelter instead of having to resolve the matter differently.

So we want to make sure we are readily able to respond to anyone who's providing that first response to someone outside and have that available shelter bed.

And so folks like Megan help make sure that those connections are happening successfully from our communities to our shelter beds.

And the previous slide I skipped right over it.

I'm not sure that I know how to go back to it.

I'm sorry.

There it is.

Also describes some other exciting collaborative efforts, including our health care case conferencing.

This has actually become a national best practice model.

We have health system experts in the same room with our shelter providers and our outreach providers talking about how to coordinate health care while we're simultaneously connecting someone to housing services.

So we're planning for discharges out of the emergency rooms, but we're also planning for how do we get this individual who's in our shelter into the proper level of care.

And that partnership works both ways, and both part parties or both sides of the system, both systems are just as grateful for one another.

And we have advisory bodies to help inform the ongoing implementation of our housing and homeless services, as well as these community listening sessions, like city council conversations.

We also go out to the general public to make sure we're listening directly to those experiencing homelessness housing instability and wanting to make sure we're doing all we can with the resources we have.

So moving into what's next.

Unfortunately, the needs in our communities persist.

We are not keeping up despite the game changing level of regional infusion of resources through both the bond and the supportive housing services measure and important investments at the state level.

Also the need is far outpacing the capacity we have.

We have wait lists for our shelter programs and our housing programs.

And we need to continue to maximize the impact of these resources because as soon as we can help one family, we have another family, or actually four more families waiting to go.

So this slide just highlights some of those examples of need as expressed in our community, the number of people who were counted in our point in time count.

We like to shine a light that even though homelessness is going up by this year over year count that we do in Washington County, the increase in homelessness in Washington County did not happen in unsheltered homelessness.

It only was expressed through the sheltered homelessness, which is an expression of increased capacity to serve our community.

So while it's daunting to know the need increases, we're pleased to know that people are getting more people are getting the services they need.

But what's really challenging is that rent continues to far outpace incomes.

It's not keep incomes are not keeping up, especially for people on fixed incomes and sadly, homelessness and housing instability is especially growing among our aging population.

So we continue to figure out what we can do to be responsive with these resources, as I mentioned.

And then to close, um I'm sorry, thank you, Liz.

These this is just repeating many things that I've just we've described.

Um, in addition to navigating those changes, we're also updating our local implementation plan.

It's an opportunity to relook at our system.

We're five years into homeless services with the SHS measure.

What do the next five look like?

Those two transitional housing projects, and we're we're wrapping up our affordable housing bond work this next year.

So we'll be looking to what comes next after this regional housing bond.

All right, and to close, and wonderful story from Pierre, one of our participants who was experiencing homelessness and moved through the Tiger Just Compassion shelter, and then went on to get uh enrolled in a workforce development program to become a certified nurse assistant, and now works on staff at that same program.

So he just has had such a transformation through this work and continues to share all that he has learned to inspire the hope and transformation for those who come through the shelter today.

With that, we turn it over to you to Mayor Bubenick and your and your team here to ask any questions that we can help with.

Great.

Well, thank you.

Questions for Liz and Jess.

Council Brooks.

I think Councilor Reyes.

I had a few questions.

Okay.

Um thank you very much for your presentation and all your work.

It's not easy work, and thank you also to Megan for coming tonight as well.

We really appreciate your work in our community.

Um I had a question about what the transitional housing for the people that are moving through treatment.

Um where are the two sites located?

Happily happy to answer Councilor Brooks.

Uh we have uh awarded two projects, one in the city of Hillsborough, which will uh create new transitional housing for people coming through mental health programs with Transcending Hope.

I think it's about 45 beds.

And the second is in unincorporated Washington County on Cornell Road and Highway 26.

We acquired a hotel, the former double tree.

I think it has a different name before that at the Phoenix Inn.

I'm not sure, I'm so sorry.

But you can imagine that intersection off a highway 26.

And that will have about 75 to 80 beds for people coming through recovery, especially through our new CAT, the Center for Addiction Triage and Treatment.

So it's it's just a few minutes away from that location.

Great.

And then for the e-beds, how many of those beds are available?

Well, they're available on any given night, and we aim to have I think three to five in every congregate shelter program.

So really these are mats that can come out from the closet or just sort of make a makeshift space for anyone in any given night so that we can maximize the full capacity of the shelter, but always be on hand to take a few more from any law officer who would need to use it use that use that service.

Okay, great.

And um and then as far as for the LIP, um, is there a place that we can I was part of that first plan, and I'm just curious um what that process is going to look like and if there's um the plan if the plan is available on the website.

Absolutely, thank you.

That's an excellent question.

Your council.

Um it's been open for a while now, but the engagement process um goes through the rest of this month, and then we will be compiling all the feedback that we've received through the through those various um settings and updating the last year's uh sorry, the the initial local implementation plan, um which is linked in that survey.

Okay, and it's linked in that survey, and then is there a place that you can find it on the website as well?

Absolutely, yes.

Um we can help connect to the website.

Okay, that would be good because I think it's good for people to know, and then finally, I I know that there was um I guess my hardest thing around some of it has been the eviction prevention conversation.

That's what our community is really invested and interested in.

And just also as a therapist myself to prevent people, especially all these kids from being traumatized so early.

Um I'm just wondering if there's other what what the strategy is or what you guys are thinking around getting some of those funds to make those programs whole again.

Thank you.

So the counselor speaking to significant reductions in eviction prevention at the state level.

Um we were very grateful for Metro Council.

I want I'm looking back to Councillor Garrett Rosenthal who's with us this evening for approving um one-time investments uh through unallocated unutilized utilized admin funds from the Support of Housing Services that Metro was holding.

Uh so they will be re uh distributing 10 million dollars to Washington County, which will in part help us to restore eviction prevention resources with community action to the level that we had hoped the state would fund for the next two years in hopes that there is a more permanent long-term solution identified.

And then that I guess that leads me to the supportive housing services question as well.

With the is there any feedback that you have on the proposal that's been put out by Metro and thoughts about how that would affect an impact our county?

Yeah, the um you're speaking to the reforms that Metro Council is currently considering for the current implementation of the program.

Um previously there were some discussions of a ballot measure to reform the program.

Those are no longer proceeding at this time.

Of course, we will need to ask voters to renew this measure when it expires in 20 before it expires, hopefully uh in 2030.

Uh but at this time, Metro Council is uh considering, and I believe they've just had their first reading of a kind of a five or so um proposals that would uh reform port parts of the program around how we measure our key performance indicators, how we represent our outcomes to the public through a public-facing dashboard, um, how we convene oversight through a reformed oversight structure that brings both the two separate bodies together into one and resets that table, primarily with more elected leadership from across the region to help oversee this work.

Those are three of the five.

Uh I'm sorry I'm not quite remembering the other two.

But in general, we are finding these um improvements to uh be responsive to the various feedback we've heard across the community and cons and thoughtful about the roles of the various partners who are working to implement this measure, um, including the role of the counties who receive the resources and contract with our service providers to implement our county-based systems.

There are definitely some feedback coming from our board, but I believe they are discussing that tomorrow before they officially submit that.

So I don't want to represent a county position one way or other, but just to say we are engaged in that conversation and it seems to be constructively moving forward.

That's good to hear.

I just for me, I just especially from a historically neglected area.

I'm just really wanting to make sure that while we integrate that we can coordinate and collaborate with each other in the different counties, but also maintain our ability to do community assessments and may make sure that we're attending to the specific needs of the communities that we serve because there's such a difference between even one end of the county to the other, much less a try a huge tri-county area.

So I really appreciate work.

It's not easy right now.

And thanks for listening to all my questions and answering them so well.

Thank you, counselor.

Council Russ.

Thank you for the presentation.

Very informative.

I have a little um my questions are from your financial stewardship uh graph.

Um the total program was 225 million, and you mentioned that you will be well somehow it's uncertain what's happening with the federal level funds.

How much of those 225 million came from federal funds?

If you have that.

Um from federal funds, it is it's close to about 80 to 85.

Uh our housing choice voucher is our biggest federal fund uh that comes through.

Uh, but that also we in addition to that, we it would add in some of our um affordable housing, uh, public housing, continuum of care, uh, and and so it's probably just shy of 80 million, actually.

And a total that funds um the public housing and the vouchers.

Okay.

And then the rest kind of came from the bond that was passed uh from the measure that was passed a couple three, four years ago.

A good chunk, so it's about 60% of it comes from the supportive housing measures um uh fund, and that includes that does not include the Metro Affordable Housing Fund, which we keep seeing go down because we are spending that and then putting those in place.

Um, and then the rest are some state uh funding as well.

Okay, just I was curious because as things move forward, um, I'm trying to see how much money if these federal funds don't come in, you might lose from that amount, right?

Yes.

Kind of like that.

We're trying to do the math there.

Balancing some reductions of some programs like the emergency housing voucher program, which is unsetting um three years earlier than it was designated, it was it came out of the uh ARPA um funding, and so that was about 80 households that we're finding new solutions for and was it's about 150,000 a year that we're gonna have to adjust for.

Um, but the other thing that we're seeing uh with that is the continued resolutions that are coming in, that flat funding, um, and then our programs like our voucher programs and our public housing just aren't being funded a hundred percent per the cost of them.

So that and makes some choices that we have to decide and continuing to serve folks as we know that as Jess had mentioned, there's a long wait list for people coming behind that would like access to those services.

And then my other question is on activities or education, I'll say more for individuals that are seeking more of that homeownership or transferring to something more permanent than um because I know that being in this subsidies it depends on how much income you make.

Uh, if you make a dollar more than you know, or a certain amount of money, so our people pick or choose not to work more or not to have more income so they can stay in the program.

Are there any like educational programs that are provided to encourage people to have home ownership, which is more in my opinion, um future transfer of wealth to their family and and all that.

So I don't know if there's any kind of education happening on that level, so that can cycle out people to get better and then help more that are coming in financially.

Yeah.

Yes.

Um I there could always be more, but we do uh provide several different streams through our family self-sufficiency programs, um, partnering with um one of our many service providers that we've been able to help support.

They also offer um direct support assistance uh with individuals.

We have a lot through our foster youth programs of education, um uh team members who are continually hearing these exact same questions from our participants and trying to connect them to other uh resources that are already in the community as we want to also encourage that.

Um as we want to also encourage that.

Um sometimes we do focus on the housing aspect and then we'll connect them out to other services as we continue to try to grow.

Our home ownership program um is uh vastly underused, and we would love to see that improve on until we get more funding from the federal government.

We've that's been on hold.

Um, and as you had mentioned, that folks do find that um having to make that choice of as they we call it a benefits cliff in our world where you know the you start making more money and then all the benefits goes away.

We're really um excited that as a housing authority that can do a moving to work uh part is something that's through the federal government.

We're extending our safety net so folks can um stay on the program for six more months and and almost a year to make sure that they have stable income before they have to give up that voucher.

Um and that gives the opportunity for people to feel maybe just a tiny bit more comfortable and making those uh payments every single month uh so then they can successfully graduate.

Okay, thank you.

Other questions?

Hello, President Pratt.

Hi yeah, thank you all three of you for all your hard work and what a service you're providing to our community.

Um it was already mentioned that I noticed that SHS is 59% of your budget.

So um I wish you the best that that will continue.

Um I was wondering with your outreach providers, um, I know you have overall KPAIs, but do you um vet them and then do you check in with them on a periodic basis to make sure they're um being the best providers for you?

Thank you, counselor.

Excellent question, and yes.

Um, and yes, this is also a a part of the system that we are continuously improving.

Um as I mentioned, we really kind of launched quickly this SHS program uh just five years ago and brought on the outreach providers that were sort of already working in our community and created a structured program for how outreach would be operated, the base level expectations and metrics for reporting, etc.

etc.

And we continue to provide ongoing training and check-in meetings and then contract management for those providers, as we do with each of our providers, not just the outreach program.

Recently, just this year, we updated our outreach um map, so kind of drawing, redrawing some of the boundaries to reflect the needs that are being reported back from each of the local communities and right sizing the boundaries for each of the uh each of the providers so that there was a reasonable turf for them to manage, if you will.

So that's one level of the system improvement.

We also expect that um now that all of our outreach and shelter and housing providers are kind of in place and have done this work for several years, we'll likely be um reviewing those providers and reopening the opportunity for procurement for new providers and select reselecting uh not every year, but in some sort of revolving way, so we can refresh that those commitments and those providers to ensure we are providing the best services to each community.

Great.

And then my last question is if um someone needs services, whether it's a place to stay tonight to eviction prevention, who do they call or where do they go?

That's a great question and another point of continued improvement.

The long-standing practice in Washington Kennet County has been our community connect phone line as sort of operating as a you know uh one-shop, one stop shop to call for any level of assistance, and that is still the case.

Uh community connect is still there.

However, we're trying to also institute a no wrong door approach for Washington County so an individual can go to just compassion because that's who they've been working with, or maybe their social worker at the school who is also connected to the system, so that uh everyone will find their way to the same answers and the same availability of services, and it doesn't always happen have to happen through a phone assessment.

Other questions I just have one a follow-up on the question Council Brooks had about the uh Metro proposal on reforms.

Um you can't get political because that's not your world.

But as far as there are five proposals, um ask the question right way because I don't want you to get political.

Um have has Metro listened to your suggestions and the cooper way more cooperative than they were previously with the counties.

Um I know you have to frame this the right way, but what I'm looking forward is the answer to that Washington County, and I know the board of commissioners are gonna talk tomorrow about it, but uh staff wise working with Metro is you know, looking at the draft here is this something that you know you're comfortable with and could support going forward for Washington.

If you say I you'd rather not answer that or some kind of my concern is I don't want before it was Metro pushed down to the counties and the counties resisted, and I know this has been shaken up.

I want something where the three counties are going to work well with Metro and this is gonna work so that when it does come up for a vote again to renew it, that um it's not gonna be a hard job to sell it.

Hopefully it would be way easier than you know what we've been going through for the last year.

So however you'd like to answer that.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'll do my best.

Um, say that's a great question.

Yeah.

Uh I I do want to underscore that my board is meeting to discuss this item tomorrow, and we'll be deciding how to put forward their testimony to Metro for our official county position.

I think we have for our unofficial county uh experience.

Uh I think we have come a long way in partnership with Metro and the jurisdictions working in partnership to implement the supportive housing services measure.

We still have a lot of work to do, I think, both to rebuild trust with one another, but most especially with our voters and key partners who will support this future measure when it goes back to voters.

Uh and I'm hopeful that resetting the table and bringing elected leadership to that table to understand the choices at hand uh will help us get there.

And I will uh there's maybe some cautious in caution in my optimism because homelessness can has become a very politically charged issue.

And uh it is a challenging one to it is challenging to implement the system and or and this this work.

And when there are leaders in roles um with microphones, um, but without the obligations and responsibilities of making those choices, it can become more politicized, and so it will be important for Metro and the counties to really hold that ground and how we invite all of those voices in and also are clear-eyed about what the choices that are before the implementers and the responsible parties who are managing these resources because there are no easy decisions at this point.

Every single dollar is accounted for and keeping the lights on in some program across our region that is keeping someone housed.

And so if we're going to repurpose those resources, we're going to be making tough decisions, decisions across the region.

So I hope that the table comes together to help us make those tough decisions and help us restore faith and confidence in local government to address homelessness in our region.

Nicely answered.

All right.

Any other questions?

Very much appreciate the update.

Appreciate you coming out tonight in a very way at night.

And very nice job on that last answer.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you all.

Thank you.

All right.

That brings us to general business.

Item number one of the general business is consideration of resolution number 593-25, approving the new time parking sign installations on Southwest Itle Street and Southwest 120th Avenue.

Uh Chief and Mike.

Welcome.

Well, good evening, Mayor, Council.

I am Chief Pickering.

Uh here today, just for a brief uh statement regarding the consideration of resolution 59325 to institute some parking restrictions on uh Southwest Eagle and Southwest 120th between Eagle and Twalton Sherwood Road.

Uh so uh this uh area has become uh quite an issue as you've all known from emails and public testimony here at in front of council.

Um just a uh a quick snapshot uh from January of this year till today, uh the police department has taken over 67 calls for service in that area related to abandoned vehicles and RVs parking on the streets uh in this area.

Um several businesses in the area complain about the RVs parked there, uh as well as boats that have been dumped, vehicles that have been dumped in that location.

So uh staff has met uh from the police department and from engineering and community development to try to find the best short-term resolution that we could um to help the businesses in the area, but also um try to deal with the issues at hand.

Um with that um and over a length of discussion, we feel that uh designating that section of Eagle and that section of 120th as a no parking from 10 p.m.

to 5 a.m.

Essentially eliminating the overnight parking in that area should hopefully alleviate the issues uh until we can tackle the bigger issues that we know that are more facing.

So Mike, anything to add?

Uh so we designed uh this is Mike McCarthy's uh city engineer.

Uh so we designed a signage plan in accordance with the manual and uniform traffic control devices to address the enforcement needs identified by police.

Okay.

Yeah, and um I think that the biggest thing that um where we really have noticed is that our current ordinances and the ORS that would um you know the this is a public roadway, there is no shoulders on these roadways.

It's a three-lane road with a center turn lane, two travel lanes in each direction.

It is a commercial um zone commercial area, so there's big rigs, big trucks, things that are trying to move up and down the roadway, and with RVs parked there, it does obscure the lanes to and make it difficult for the the businesses to do what they need to do in that area.

So questions for Chief or Mike.

Wait, say the names of the streets again.

It's Southwest Eatle Southwest and Southwest 120th.

Oh, I see.

Over near Lazy Boy, right?

Yeah, it's on the Yeah, on the back side off of it's Eagle between roads with the whole stretch of Eagle, which is really runs from 120th to the dead end past 115th.

Other questions?

Councillor Gonzalez.

Thank you very much.

Very timely response.

Um even up until a couple days ago I received texts with pictures of that.

So very timely, and I text them back that today we're gonna be talking about, so hopefully people are logging in.

What is the alternatives?

Where are gonna people where are people gonna be going now that we've we're gonna do this?

Have you guys identified where that's gonna take place?

So that's the bigger issue that uh we kind of skipped over the top of, right?

So the need is there still.

And we all are tackling this uh in the region, not just here in Twalton.

Um I will say that our time place and manner ordinance does not address vehicle camping, and we're one of the only ones in the region that does not.

Um so the fear from the police side of of this issue is that we we feel like there's not really not a lot of teeth for us to deal with RVs and camp car camping on public roadways and public ride-away.

Obviously, vehicle camping or vehicles camping on public property, it's a completely different issue.

But when it comes to the public right-away, we don't have anything in our ordinance that allows us to deal with those situations.

There are safe park alternatives uh in other communities or surrounding us.

Wilsonville does allow RVs in their safe park, and there's some other communities that do.

City of Portland does, but even the city Portland RV safe park areas are they've just closed one, some are getting smaller.

So, you know, we're all tackling this issue to figure out how we deal with this.

Um but again, in this in this area in this situation, it's just not safe for them to be parked where they are parked.

A follow-up question.

Will they be able to park at the police station where we had designated that piece of land where somebody could stay the night there?

Is that gonna be an option to consider opening?

So we haven't discussed that at this point.

Currently, I would say the uh the option is no because they're currently replacing our roof, and that area is completely full of the roofing materials uh that we have.

Um but we haven't discussed where we could potentially park RVs at that um in uh in the city of Twalton at this point.

Yeah.

Okay, last question.

So what'll happen?

So now you find somebody, they moved into the community, they're parked in front of some in some in front of somebody's home.

What happens next?

Well, again, we're talking about on the public right-away, we would be able to there are or uh there are ORS and uh municipal codes that we could deal with when it comes to residential areas.

Again, that we would have to we would tackle on a case-by-case basis that we go.

Okay, thank you.

Yeah.

Other questions.

Council Brooks.

I'm just curious if it's not safe to park there because of big trucks and stuff, which seem like they would be during the day.

Why we have parking there at all?

Well, we looked at that.

There are there are incidents.

You can park cars on those roadways safely during the day, and there are some of the businesses during business hours that use those as overflow parking.

And some of the issues that we have at that at night when you have RVs and at sometimes four to five to six RVs that have been lined up along that roadway, deliveries that come in overnight, you know, businesses that are open uh 24 hours or run late shifts into the evenings.

Those parking lots usually have enough parking for them to be off the streets.

And so, but during the day when all of the businesses are working, usually during business hours, there's it becomes a tight location.

So the overflow, you know, there would be limited overflow onto the roadways themselves, but after over in the evening hours, it becomes much more of a of a different situation with again being that dark and then bigger trucks coming in throughout the throughout the evening.

Thank you.

And then my other um question is just I'm curious now if there's roofing there, is the camp, is there enough room for somebody if they needed to be camping?

Are they gonna absolutely we have uh we currently have uh one gentleman who camps almost every night and has plenty of space and uh is following the ordinance.

He's sometimes a little late getting up after seven o'clock, but he cleans up after himself, does a great job, and so he's there probably four to five days a week.

And uh yeah, no issue.

So there's enough room.

Even though with the roofing and all that, yeah, we we just there there wouldn't be, and we haven't discussed the the issue of parking in RV in that parking lot right now.

Oh, in the parking lot.

Yeah, okay.

But the area that is designated per the time, place and manner ordinance um is readily accessible and and is used pretty frequently.

Okay.

All right.

I guess another day about if we ever would put gravel over there.

Okay, thanks.

Thank you.

Um but the time place manner is just about tent camping, right?

Not RV.

Correct.

That's the issue.

So to Councilor Gonzalez's point, I I mean, I where they're at now is not that needs to be addressed currently, but it's just gonna become an issue somewhere else, and we're gonna have to deal with this more depth at some point.

We we are, and that that was as I alluded to earlier in my comments.

That's that's the bigger issue that will we will need to tackle as a community at going forward at some point.

Okay, thank you.

Oh, I motion that we adopt resolution number 5933-25.

Second.

I have a motion and a second to adopt resolution number five nine three three-25.

Any discussions on those motions?

See none.

Uh Councilor Sacco.

Aye.

Council Reyes.

Yes.

Councilor Gonzalez.

Yes.

Council Brooks.

Aye.

Council President Pratt.

Aye.

Chair votes aye.

It's unanimous.

Uh 60.

It uh resolution is adopted.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Thank you very much.

Okay.

Item number two in their general business is consideration of resolution number 5937-25, affirming September 10th, 2025 architectural review board decision approving LAM Research Campus Expansion, AR 24-0002, located at 11155-11361 Southwest Levanton Drive, tax lots, 2S122 AA 500 and 800, 2s 122 A00100, 2S 122 BA 00100.

Uh before we get into the discussions resolution, our city attorney would like to uh make a few points on how we're going to frame this discussion.

Kevin.

Yeah, thank you.

Mayor and Council, Kevlin McConnell, City Attorney.

So before you is a resolution with three exhibits attached to it, uh affirming uh the ARB's LAM decision and denying the LAM appeal that was filed uh that you heard on November 10th uh this year.

So why you have three exhibits?

One is the uh September 11th ARB findings and analysis.

The the other exhibit, uh the exhibit two is the uh uh council appeal uh supplemental staff memo, and there's also the exhibit three, and I think that's caused a little bit of consternation with uh uh members of the community, and I know that the appellant uh has raised some issues regarding that exhibit three and red lines some uh issues that he believed did not need to be in the in the uh final decision.

But uh while you have three exhibits is your council rules and to all it and development code require you uh to uh adopt a resolution or order containing findings to support your decision.

The council may incorporate findings proposed by the proponent, the opponent, or staff in its decision.

So right off the bat, it's not improper uh for the council to consider uh findings forwarded by or advanced by uh LAM uh uh tonight.

So I think the issue is uh they were very thorough, and I believe the intent was to address each and every issue that the appellant raised at the council appeal hearing, especially uh a lot of issues, but especially as to noise standards.

So uh I know that the appellant uh had some issues that maybe the council saw and requested some revisions uh to that uh LAM exhibit three, and uh generally those were pages 25 through 31 and 33 through 35, and that was the uh the the noise standards that have been advanced uh by by LAM.

And and why would a council want uh or want to consider uh adopting supplemental uh alternative findings?

I think you you do that uh generally uh the city believes the city's findings, those first two exhibits are generally sufficient to withstand any appeal that someone might uh file with LUBA.

But let's say, for example, that LUBA disagreed that uh uh the council and plausibly uh interpreted a provision of its code or there wasn't substantial evidence in the record to support your final decision.

They could latch on to one of those alternative findings and and it would it would serve to save your decision without it having to be remanded and have the council consider one or two issues uh again at a remand.

So that's no, I think that was the intent.

Uh the counsel for Lamb is here.

I don't know if she's going to speak or not, she might.

Uh there's opportunity for uh members of the public to speak uh during this uh agenda item.

But what we have done, we uh we understand that there was concerns raised specifically as to the noise standards and what Lamb has agreed to do, and this is in your packet.

It was submitted into the pack at about three o'clock this afternoon is there's a clean version and a red line version.

Uh that they have taken out the vast majority of the uh the material regarding the noise standards of the findings that were uh objectionable to the appellant and members of the public.

Uh there is a provision in there that if this matter is appealed uh to Luba that the council reserves the right and you have the right under state law to do this to reconsider withdraw your decision and reconsider it and modify any decision you you you you may have uh to incorporate, reincorporate these uh these noise standard findings that have been stricken and taken out, or other uh uh findings that you wish to insert uh if it was appealed.

So the they are not there are alternative findings.

Uh they they generally, if there was no appeal, they would have no impact.

It was my opinion, they would have no impact on this ancillary code enforcement proceeding, but with it taken out, that should resolve the majority of the issues that uh the appellant and members of the public had regarding the uh Lamb's exhibit three noise standard findings.

So I'll stop there.

Okay.

So I just want to remind folks that um resolution 5937 25.

Uh we're not reopening the hearing.

There's no additional evidence.

All we're discussing tonight is the resolution itself.

Uh but I am going to you know open it, of course, to uh folks who want to speak in favor of the resolution and folks who uh want to speak against or have some concerns with the resolution.

Um just a reminder um councilor Brooks and Counselor uh Hillier cannot uh participate in this at all since uh uh counselor Brooks uh was not here uh for the original uh hearing, and then you know Council Hillier uh was on the ARB.

Uh so it's only the original five uh participants uh can ask questions and uh be involved in this hearing, just so you know, Councilor Brooks.

Thank you.

Okay, and I'm gonna actually step off the dais so there's no confusion.

And if I leave early, uh Merry Christmas.

Happy holidays.

All right.

Uh so in the traditional mode, we usually take the folks who are in favor of resolution to go first.

So is there anyone in the room or in Zoom who would like to prop um give some uh feedback on resolution 5937-25?

This is a little different than a public hearing because you are limited to three minutes.

Welcome.

Good evening, Mayor, members of the city council.

I hadn't planned on speaking, but I can't sit here and not speak.

I really just want to make myself available in case you had any questions.

Um what I think you may ask is one, why have supplemental findings at all?

Why would we have alternative findings?

Um so the reason for supplemental findings are, you know, I agree with your city attorney that what was in the materials is defensible.

It's just strengthening what was already drafted.

Um also the supplemental findings addressed issues that came up in public testimony that weren't addressed in the staff report or in the ARB's decision.

So, in order for the decision, the city council's decision to be complete and address all issues that have been raised, you need some supplemental findings.

Um the findings and the alternative, that's we talked about that as belt and suspenders.

Um, and why does that matter?

LUBA appeals take a long time.

They take about six months to review.

So if your decision this evening is appealed to LUBA, we probably won't get a decision until roughly the third quarter of next year.

And if that decision gets remanded on an issue or two, it has to come back before the city, get readopted, and then it could get appealed again.

So then we're talking about 2027 before we have a decision in this case.

And that's without any appeals to the Court of Appeals.

So that's why we try to preload and address everything in the alternative so that there's one shot at LUBA.

Um that being said, we understand the concerns.

Uh we disagree in terms of them prejudicing the noise enforcement proceeding, but um, you know, happy to withdraw those findings or the the alternative findings.

Um the issue of the city having a voluntary withdrawal, that is something that you're allowed to do under state law, and it's it's like a mulligan.

Um basically, if your decision is appealed to LUBA, you say yep, we're gonna take it back and uh bolster the findings a little bit more.

Um and you have 21 days to take it back, and then you have to reissue your decision in 90 days.

So it's a quick process because time is critical.

Um with that, I'm I'm happy to answer any questions.

Otherwise, we appreciate your attention to detail, your attention to this community, and we recommend a request that you approve it this evening.

Thank you.

All right.

Uh individuals who uh want to testify against or have issues with or want to just testify on resolution number 5937-25.

Mr.

Hamilton, come on up, thank you, Mr.

Mayor, members of council.

I would like to thank Lamb for their prompt um revision of their draft.

I think it addresses the vast majority of the issues and the ones that are the most prejudicial to the municipal court and the uh code enforcement.

Um I would I'm still very curious about what is there.

What do they intend to do about the existing noise issues?

And I know they're not that's not relevant to this hearing, so I won't like really bring it up, but that's what we're thinking about is like the the issue that exists now is not even caused by this per proposal.

It's the existing.

So with that, I I would encourage you to adopt it as written as edited, and I appreciate it.

It would have been nice had that document been released to our side when it was released to the city.

I just happened to stumble on it on Thursday night.

I don't know when it was written.

I don't know when it was submitted to the city.

It was kind of frustrating that it was just kind of slipped in at the last minute.

So in the future it'd be nice to be able to get notice of those things.

But thank you so much.

Uh questions, discussion.

My question to Kevin is if we adopt this resolution, is the what we received this afternoon.

And Council President, you're correct.

So it's the revised exhibit three that was submitted later that late this afternoon.

That will be the exhibit that the council adopts as its own, incorporates as its own findings.

Okay.

Not the one that was submitted last week.

Okay, thank you.

Other questions.

The question I have probably up on Mr.

Hamilton's request about the sound.

Um, so I just quick check on what's the status of the existing complaint about sound at Lamb, and then and it's directed to city manager.

And um to Kevin reaffirming that uh in the future there's nothing in this resolution that would bar community members from uh registering the noise complaint and asking to have it uh looked into.

So question for Sherlin status of the existing, you don't have to get into details, but I know it's still going on.

Correct?

That is an existing.

Yes, yes, it absolutely is.

There's an investigation, uh code enforcement investigation underway currently, and um it's winding its way through the process.

Okay.

I'm off for sure.

I don't want the no dirty deal, but it is continuing on, so nothing's disappeared.

And then to Kevin, in the future when you know Tux is built out, nothing here stops a community member from registering a sound complaint.

Mayor, you're correct.

There's nothing in these findings that would preclude a member of the public from uh registering a noise ordinance complaint with the code enforcement office.

Okay, yep.

Any other questions?

I move that we adopt resolution number 5937-25.

Second.

I have a motion and a second to adopt resolution resolution number five nine three seven-25.

Any discussions on those motions?

Right, Councilor Gonzalez.

Aye.

Yes.

Mike.

Uh I yes, I approve.

Councilor Sacco.

I councillor Reyes.

Yes.

Council Burns and Prent.

Aye.

Chair votes aye.

Resolution 5937 is unanimously adopted.

Five to nothing.

Uh moving on to items removed from consent agenda.

We had none.

Uh council communications.

We did our normal round table earlier at the end of our uh 12 and development code, but anything pop up in people's minds before we call the night.

I just want to say happy holidays, everyone.

Have a safe and enjoyable holiday.

We've seen the storm starting to hit.

Be safe.

Be smart out there and enjoy the holidays.

Enjoy the time with your family and friends.

And looking forward to a new year and continuing to make this city a terrific place to live, work, and play.

With that, our usual person who does the adjournment is not here, so who'd like to do it?

We got two of them.

Second.

All those in favor, adjourning for the final time in 2025.

Aye.

All those opposed.

It's unanimous.

Thank you, everyone.

Have a terrific holiday.