So everybody please stand and Councillor Reyes will lead us.

Next is public comment.

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Then we'll move on to the consent agenda.

This will be enacted with one vote.

Is there anyone that wishes to have any of the three items on the consent agenda removed for further discussion?

Okay.

I will read them.

First is consideration of approval of the regular meeting minutes of February 9th, 2026.

Next, consideration of resolution number 5944-26, exempting specific affordable housing developments from property taxes.

And finally, consideration of resolution number 5945-26 authorizing the city manager to execute a grant agreement for Metro Area Communications Commission grant awards appropriating special purpose revenues in the city's general fund during the fiscal year 25-26 budget and rescinding resolution 5942 26.

Any discussion?

Motion.

I move to adopt the consent agenda as red.

I second it.

We have a motion and a second for the consent agenda.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Okay.

Oh, mayor.

Okay.

Special reports.

We have outside agent uh grant presentation for um CEP or communities community partners for affordable housing from Lindsay.

It'll turn red.

There you go.

Hello, so I'm Catherine Moore.

I'm the director of programs with community partners for affordable housing.

Thank you for having us tonight.

Good evening.

My name is Julie Luna Dominguez, the resident service coordinator for Plantback Gardens.

And I was here about just over a year ago talking about Plantback Gardens, which was to come.

So we were still navigating through construction equipment and kind of still envisioning what this place was going to become.

And since then we've had, we've filled up.

So we have fully leased up Plan Beck with 116 families calling their calling it home.

And focus has been on, you know, really building that community and bringing folks in.

We have about just under 300 residents and over a hundred of them are kids under the age of 18.

So SEPA not only builds affordable housing, but we provide the services in those buildings to support housing stability.

And one of the ways we do that is focusing on services to residents, bringing bringing resources online and as well as community building, helping households root in and build connections with each other to increase stability.

So not only addressing notices and rent assistance needs, but thinking really like how do we help people develop community here?

And so that's been happening at Plan Beck since then.

We have some pictures up there that just to show you kind of some of the different events and things that we've been doing.

So our youth services that they happen across our buildings, and we're here tonight to thank you for your contribution to support our youth services at Plan Back Gardens.

And we're in the development of what this is going to be, but it has kicked off and things are happening.

And Julian's gonna talk a little bit more about what's been going on at PlanBec and um plans to come.

Yeah.

So it's been a really um great year so far to start off with just a whole new community and so many families and so many kids.

Um so I think in the slide there was a couple pictures of you know the kids out on the field during a um session with PlayFit Fun where I invited them out to you know kind of get together to play together.

Um more than anything socialized because these are a lot of kids and families coming from different backgrounds.

So I think one way was really to get them engaged in team sports activities and just games where they get to know each other's name, participate and you know, kind of just you know, be part of the community.

Um of our biggest events that we had so far was our Halloween party.

Uh we had about over a hundred residents attend and a lot of kids.

Uh I took it upon myself to buy 50 pumpkins for the kiddos, and they were absolutely just painting and drawing everything they could on that.

There was a bit of a mess, but it was honestly a really great time, and from what I got from a lot of the families and the parents is that they were really grateful to have something like this to where you know the entire community um of the apartment complex can come together and you know just share some time um together with friends, families, food, uh, and activities like that.

Uh one of the things we're really continuing to go on with that is youth events.

So that's um events where we just focus on the youth engaging together, socializing, doing activities, eating, um, and just kind of getting to know more about each other.

Um, but also you know, hearing each other out with you know, stories of school or friends or anything like that, where they get to get to be themselves in our community building space.

Um one thing where I'm asking a lot of the kids and the families right now is where they would like to go for our first field trip.

Um the two main things are is kayaking and a trip to the zoo, and the kids and the families are absolutely aesthetic of what that will look like.

Um and just to give you a bit of the previews uh you would more than likely get a bus together, get all the content forms and everything signed, get all the lunches packed and organized, and then you know, get on the bus to from Plan Back to the zoo, get off and just have an amazing time.

Um I was actually just one on one for last year with a couple of different properties, and it really made me really excited to what I could see with my own kids and the families at Plantback Gardens.

So seeing this is kind of like getting me really excited, but I'm also very like just proud of seeing what um the kids will kids and families will look like in that time um and what it would do for our community, especially just you know unifying it within the first couple years.

Um and just continuing with PlayFit Fun, uh youth events, and then also anything that would improve the I guess the community engagement with all the families there.

Um and I would just like to give a quick shout out to Cindy a council women uh Hiller uh with Twalting Together because I've been a part of the Twilight and Together coalition since also joining with SEPA.

Um and it it's giving me really engaged with youth uh activities or um events going around at Twalton and gives me that opportunity to post up flyers and engage families with um any activities that are relevant to youth in Twileton specifically.

Kind of that focus on not only integrating and building community at Plan Beck, but really you know, intentionally trying to help them families connect with the larger Twalty and community and some partnerships that we've really been working on.

There's a partnership with Sherwood School District.

There they've been pretty present, some have provided some backpack school drives kind of stuff.

We're also working to get neighborhood health center will be coming out to do a mobile dental clinic soon and hopefully soon-ish too, some physical health or PCP services.

Um but first focusing on with the dental clinic for youth.

Um Horizon Church, which is right nearby is also doing some regular um on-site activities and bringing resources on site for families, as well as in some some kids go to their youth group on a weekly basis.

So there's definitely connections happening across across our community.

Yeah.

It's wonderful, and I'm really proud of what to get what I get to do, and most full most of all thankful for the city of Twalton for support providing support and you know enriching these children's lives as well.

Are you done?

Yeah, okay.

I just say I love your smile when you talk about it.

Oh, thank you so much.

I I'm an extra introvert at home, but with the kids, I'm absolutely extrovert.

Um, and one of the things that I think really helps them connect with me, but also connect with others is just always being that smile, even if it's a tough conversation that we're having or a serious moment because it kind of reinsures them.

Um and even speaking on one of the partnerships that I do with school Sherwood School District, um, is I pick up the food bags every Thursday and I try to meet the kids at the bus stop with their own food bags, you know, label it with their unit numbers and then meet them at the bus stop because it's literally like the bus stop and then the apartment complex right there.

And it kind of gives to them that that feeling of like, oh, someone's waiting for me, and I have a task to you know, grab the food bag, take it home, give it to my parents and be like, here's some food, you know, for them, their siblings and anything like that.

Um it just makes me really feel wholesome.

Um but my face also hurts at the end of the day from spelling so much.

So it's a lot of it's a lot of work, but I'm really grateful for working with SIPA and especially the youth.

So did you have something to say, Council Rose?

Oh yeah, I was going to say thank you.

It's um really nice to drive by and see the the apartments, the activities going on.

Um so it's something that um we're very proud of as uh people from Twilighton.

Um I do I was just curious.

Um do you guys uh connect with the I'm sure you're collecting with local nonprofits like the clin the free clinic um that's on the other side.

I don't know if you know you're aware there's a teletive free clinic downboard rolling hills.

Uh the oh uh rolling hills or rolling hills, yeah.

But the yeah, so just things like that.

Um I think it'll be good for the community to know that.

Um hopefully they are aware of that.

And also when um growing up in as a recipient of a lot of uh support for my family for housing and food.

There were also opportunities of us to give back.

Um are there any like volunteer opportunities that are offered to the kids there or people that can give back?

Um in the sense of giving back.

So you can feel.

Yeah, no, I and this is where I always ex um really am proud when I see the kids want to engage.

And not there's nothing necessarily them be able to give back right now.

Um but I always have the kids wanting to help out with volunteering setup, you know, cleaning up, anything like that, and actually this recent um event that I had last week, which was our friendship and community party, um, instead of in lieu of a Valentine's Day party.

Um a couple of the girls had helped me, or do they just you know express their expression of wanting to help uh plan this next party?

Um so you know, they just kind of I gave them a notebook, I gave them a pen, they just had them write out their ideas of what friendship would look like.

Write down friendship bracelets, cupcakes, anything like that, and it just seeing them kind of just sit in my office for five minutes just writing down everything, and then having that like joy of excitement, like, oh, we helped plan something, and then you know, them telling all the friends of the party and what it's gonna look like and how it goes, and you know, just makes them feel really ecstatic.

There's a lot of kids out during because of the flu, but um other than that, it was still a great party.

And I'm always looking to try to encourage the kids also to give back or you know, help each other in their own community, even if I'm not there, even if I don't see it, I always tell them like, hey, I know you guys are doing great things, and I'm not always there to see it, but like if you tell me about it, I'm gonna be really really proud of you guys and you know, give them a high five or a little snack if it's you know.

I have I have that in my power.

Yep.

Anyone else?

Counselor Brooks?

Um Thank you for all of your work and enthusiasm and passion for the um for the community at SEPA.

And it I mean it's a beautiful building, and but it's really the community, and so um I appreciate you bringing that forward here today.

Um and then as far as like kids, like if you were gonna do a trip to the zoo or kayaking, how many kids do you think you would?

Ooh, so I think historically at SIPA, I'm gonna have to defer that to Catherine.

Um because at Planbeck, we have a huge number of youth for one property.

So I think for I at least in my hopes, I would hope that all of the kids and all of the families could attend.

Um how many people live there about?

There's about two based on uh the last report I saw, there was about 275 um people that live there, and about 110 of those are youth under age 18.

Um and this the focus of the service of the youth services is kind of this mm-hmm, like mid-elementary or young elementary to like early middle school, yeah, is the kind of focus.

And so our other places where we have field trips, we've done up to like maybe 25 um students, so I'm not sure.

It'll be kind of a figuring out what resources we have and who we can get to kind of help volunteer, and sometimes parents will attend.

So yeah, it's kind of in the early planning stage stages.

I think elementary-wise, we have about 15, eight school-aged elementary and about 20 um or I guess 30 because it's Sherwood School District, middle and high schoolers.

Um, but when I asked the group of 20 of them, they all you know raise their hands for kayaking or zoo, and I'm like, okay, but I'm like, that's also including their siblings and their families.

Um so I'm really hoping to, you know, the maximum number of kids, so I'd say 30.

Um, which is a lot of kids, but I think the memories and time and engagement that they will get from that is really what you know what I'm striving for.

So yeah.

Yeah.

Um so as far as for reaching out to the Twellston River Keepers too, you can also reach out.

Yeah, we worked with them, yeah.

Yeah, we're actually partnering.

And then um the um the what was the other?

Oh, and then now that you're full.

Well, uh I'm gonna reach out to you guys.

Um will you be sure to leave your card?

Thanks.

Yes.

Yeah.

Um really excited that you're there on site and being um such a great part.

Oh, what the other thing I want to ask you about was, you know, we've had a lot of conversations around the bus service over there.

And um and I'm just wondering, is there are there thoughts about other ways that people are getting to services or getting around or um is there any current currently I did submit a request to ride connection.

Um you know, really hoping that they have the availability and funding to support um you know a shuttle either once or twice a month, specifically for our senior and disabled residents, yeah.

Um, either to get to a local shopping center, possibly Mart Martini Plaza Plaza, um, or just any other plaza that they feel like they would be most beneficial of accessing or getting transportation to.

Um, you know, as we know with funding and cuts, it's really hard sometimes.

So really hoping that we get um traction on that and look always looking for other solutions and um methods of getting you know, eliminating transportation barriers, especially for all my residents.

It is it is a barrier.

I mean, it is more of a barrier, especially because people have like just moved here, and so some people still have their services in other parts of the county, and it's so it's um it's a track.

Um and you know, like we've had some a little bit of funds to assist the people in the permanent supportive housing um units with some transportation assistance and that cost is it goes fast, you know.

Um rides are expensive.

So I appreciate you looking at kind of what are those other options, and I think um the kind of like how do we help people access a grocery store that's more affordable or something that they can purchase things at has been a big focus at all of our kind of properties, helping people get to those.

So yeah, hopefully.

No, thank you.

That's why I just I thank you very much.

I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Council at it.

That's me.

Thank you.

Um thank you for being here.

Thank you for sharing.

And I you do so many great things, but will you also share with this body?

Um, like you um you continue to ensure that resources are in so many different ways are brought in for all of your community.

And I know you have an upcoming event on May 7th.

And would you mind sharing a little bit about that, please?

Yeah, so our event is a little far out, but it's May 7th, and that would be um a co-hosting of a community services networking um event uh with co-hosted with Just Compassion.

Um and we're that's already live, so you can if you want to go to CSN network and then look for the specific page and then register.

Um I think we will have a limited space because you know, although as great and big of a space planned by gardens community building is uh, you know, we still want to make sure that we get enough partnerships and you know other organizations there to mingle and connect with.

Um that's one of those events where I'm really excited for because it gives to bring partners and organizations to directly to Pyback Gardens to really see what it looks like and then you know, kind of make more ideas of what we could do there with local partnerships or events.

And um Julian's held a couple of um resource fairs at Plan Beck that have had great turnout and some you know partners from across the county.

We've had um we have a connection with Lifeworks to provide kind of direct referral if folks are looking for behavioral health services, um and uh what else?

I was gonna say what is doing a data party tomorrow and Wednesday night for Twalton together.

Um so we'll be having that.

And yeah, I'm currently in planning for our winter, uh, which more than likely gonna be spring resource fair, which is gonna be March.

Um exciting and also um empowering to the residents there because they're being able to like see all these organizations come directly to them where you know they're able to kind of you know go to the community building, get some food and then check out all the resources and then directly talk to them and then also talk to me continually throughout the rest of the time um in the following days or the weeks, and then just following up with any resources there and then flyers posted everywhere, me spamming them with links to websites and resources, um just constantly networking with other organizations.

So thank you.

I just love the way you empower your community, and I hope we can all do as well as you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman.

Well, thank you.

Thank you for giving us the update and um for helping make this a community that cares about its people.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much.

Okay, next I have a couple of familiar faces from Clackamas County that are gonna update us on supportive housing services.

There we go.

Now it's on.

Thank you, Council President, mayor, counselors.

My name is Vahid Brown.

I'm the deputy director of the housing and community development division of the Health Housing and Human Services Department of Clackamas County.

Um I know that not too long ago, Washington County staff, my my colleagues in Washington County gave an update to this body about supportive housing services, and um we talked with city staff about kind of reciprocating and doing the same.

So I'm here tonight um to talk a little bit about supportive housing services implementation in Clackamas County since the beginning.

Um just to frame the slides, I'm gonna go through the data that I'm gonna talk about.

So a lot of this is kind of a by the numbers update.

Um the the numbers are for through or for the 24-25 fiscal year.

So we have kind of annual reporting cycles with Metro where we do kind of a comprehensive data evaluation, outcomes evaluation, and report those.

So they'll they're not as of today when I say, you know, uh since the beginning we've housed this many people.

That will be as of June 30th, 25.

Um and the other thing is this is a kind of by the numbers slide deck, but I'm talking about people, you know, hundreds and really thousands of human beings in our community who are suffering, who are living outside, who are not doing that anymore, who are housed, who have support they need to remain housed.

So uh the it's a brief presentation, but these are about people, even though the slide shows numbers.

Um this is a picture of the um Mercy Greenbrae affordable housing community in Lake Oswego that was built on land donated by um the the folks who where it used to be Merrill Horst University, and it's a hundred units of affordable housing, forty of those beautiful units are permanent supportive housing, which is just long-term housing support with services for folks who are coming from homelessness.

And you know, I I'm sure you are are very familiar with the supportive housing services measure, but it was a uh tax measure that was passed by voters in the Metro region in 2020.

Uh it collects uh ta taxes on uh high-income earners and businesses that earn more than five million dollars in gross receipts in the Metro region, and 21.3% of that tax revenue is distributed to Clackamas County.

We have the smallest share um, but we we do a lot of mighty work with it.

Um let's see, I think I'm gonna try this clicker and see if I can do it myself.

Andrew, could you help me with the next slide?

Thank you.

Let's see, I can see it over there.

So this is a these are numbers, this is a lot of people.

So since 2021, when we we began implementation, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-one people have been housed in Clackamas County.

And now that's that's five times the largest point in time count, you know, number of the pat uh in that period.

So this is a really significant number of people for Clackamas County.

Without support before supportive housing services, our entire system wasn't really a system.

It was uh some islands of of HUD funded programs that all together, including all sources, we had less than 10 million dollars.

And I was working at Clackamas County at that time.

I've been there for more than a decade.

Um the third largest county in the state.

We have at that time in 2019, we had almost 2,000 people experiencing homelessness in the pit count.

In the last pit count, we had about 540.

Um so that number has gone down significantly.

But we had no outreach programs.

We had no year-round shelter programs at all.

Um we had a couple of very small permanent supportive housing programs, and the list of people who are chronically homeless who had been outside for years and were really suffering with with chronic health conditions.

There were four to ten openings for that list of hundreds of people a year.

And we have been placing over a thousand people who are experiencing chronic homelessness in permanent housing programs a year with SHS.

So it's it's night and day.

It's a completely different system of care that we've been able to build.

As I said before, we didn't really have a system of care.

We had some isolated programs of care.

Eviction prevention, this is a really important and critical intervention.

I'm sure that uh the the Washington County folks talked about the significance of this.

Um, 7,115 people were able to remain housed with eviction prevention resources from SHS over the the course of the measure, which is a it's super significant because without that support, those folks would have become homeless, they would have been on our wait lists, and we would have been looking for beds for them in a shelter system that is rather limited.

So we're we're really happy with the uh outcomes with the eviction prevention investments.

Um next slide, please, Andrew.

So this is a very busy slide.

Sorry about that.

But this is the 73.5 million dollar SHS budget in the 24-25 fiscal year.

Um I'm gonna kind of start on the the left side of the pie chart.

Um the bulk of the of the funding from SHS, you know, SHS as a as a tax measure was really focused on on what's called population A in the language of the measure.

People who are experiencing long histories of homelessness and are really vulnerable living on the street.

Um so 75% of the of the tax resources are must be dedicated to programs that serve folks that meet that criteria.

25% are must be dedicated to folks who are at risk of homelessness.

Um the lion's share of our resources are on the left side of the pie, the regional long-term rent assistance and the housing retention programs.

Those together make up our PSH investments, permanent supportive housing.

So PSH is the RLA regional long-term rent assistance voucher paired with those specialized supportive services that look like a case manager or peer support, and sometimes specialized MSW or clinical uh social worker care.

Um so that's almost half of our budget.

And that will that has grown every year, and it will it will continue to take up a larger um kind of bit of the pie year over year, and that's that's as intended.

So we intend to continue to enroll people in permanent supportive housing.

Rent uh goes up about 10% a year.

Um, and so there we have 1,800 you know households on ARLA vouchers.

Um, and that's that's a really high rate of inflation year over year for those.

So we we are committed to maintaining that, and that means maintaining a balanced system, which is a you know complicated dance year over year.

So that's the the text boxes to the right and left of the pie chart kind of key to the some of those things.

So the 1,829 people on ARLA or regional long-term rent assistance vouchers, those are all PSH recipients.

All RLA voucher recipients in Clackamas County also receive supportive services.

We don't have a ARLA-only program.

Um Washington County does, but we we dedicate all of those vouchers to support folks who are coming out of chronic homelessness.

95% of those households do not return to homelessness.

So the retention rate for for permanent supportive housing in Clackamas County is exceedingly high.

That's that's banana side in in this in this work.

So that that's that's due to the great work of our community partners.

Um down towards the bottom of the pie, the county admin, that's the planning, the program planning data and contract administration, that's staff on my team.

Um the the small 5% is the regional strategies.

This is the 5% that's mandated by the measure that each county sets aside, and a tri-county planning body kind of plans uh how to use those funds to regionalize the system of care.

So some examples are the landlord recruitment goal of the Tri-County Planning Body.

We have a landlord hotline, uh, and we have health and housing alignment program, which is also coming from the the TCPB, the Tri-County Planning Body, and the use of those regional dollars.

Um system investments, these are many things.

Um we these are system-wide programs or infrastructure that that really are necessary to support the whole system, like coordinated entry, our coordinated housing access program, um, the homeless management information system, HMIS, and built infrastructure, so capital investments to build shelters or or create new new short-term housing villages come from that bucket.

And then outreach is rather self-explanatory.

That's reaching out and finding people where they're living, where they are and getting connected with them, providing them with survival supplies in that initial encounter and getting them enrolled and in our by name list uh of people experiencing homelessness, shelter.

Shelter.

We have 238 shelter beds.

Those are all new with SHS.

So that's 238 new shelter beds as of 2021.

That program in the fiscal year 24-25 served 1,426 people.

And then Rapid Rehousing is a shorter term rental assistance with services type of program.

This is a really good intervention for folks who are just lost their housing.

Every kind of Murphy's Law thing has gone wrong.

The car broke down, I lost my job, my partner got you know hospitalized.

Crap.

Now we're in the car, and that's where we live.

So rapid rehousing is getting that family back into an apartment up to two years of rent assistance and support to help them kind of stabilize.

Rapid rehousing served 423 people in that year, and then homelessness prevention.

I already talked about that.

That's um that's a 7.3 million dollar investment.

This is important for us and fairly for Tualtan and Washington County in the region because the state cut eviction prevention funding, which is for many communities the largest funder of eviction prevention by 74% in this biennium.

So we've been able to sustain that program and the staff that uh that administered that program with a large uh large amount of support from SHS.

Uh next slide, please, Andrew.

So just a few program highlights, some things we're really excited about that have kind of come to be are brand new or new and improved.

Um the Native American Youth and Family Association, also known as NEA, um, in with S support from SHS funding, they opened the first culturally specific family shelter serving indigenous people in the United States, which was really a surprise to me.

I could not believe there's not a culturally specific family shelter in Alaska or in Minnesota or in New Mexico.

No.

This according to our partners, they're our culturally specific partner experts.

They were the first one.

So they're also the first one in Oregon.

Um so it's a it's a beautiful family shelter in the city of Milwaukee.

Um that I I love that mural at the bottom, it says um never homeless before 1492.

Um so that's that's really a successful program.

Um coordinated housing access is our coordinated entry um program.

This is it administered by the county.

We staff it.

Um it is, I think, one of the best coordinated entry systems in the United States.

So a little bit biased.

But in 2024 in this fiscal year, we did receive a um uh National Association of Counties award for our CHA improvement project.

We were the only county in Oregon to receive a NACO award for 2024.

Um so that's the that's the community and the commissioners celebrating that award.

Um what happened there is COVID kind of well, we all know what happened with COVID, a lot of disasters and and economic crises and a lot of people reaching out for assistance and a lot of rent assistance being available, and so folks were scrambling trying to access it.

So where we had hundreds of calls, you know, in a in a given month or whatever, we would have thousands.

And we didn't have we had the staff to manage a pre-COVID amount of folks calling CHA.

So we got behind.

And we were not okay with someone calling, leaving a voicemail saying I'm about to get evicted, and not getting a call back until six weeks later when the call, the number's been disconnected or something, because they've lost their home.

So we um got a lot of temp employees.

We got on top of that backlog within a few months, and we got ahead of it, and now we're answering that that phone number live.

All calls are answered live.

Clackamas Village is a new uh pod village in in Clackamas County that was built with supportive housing services funding.

It was opened in May of last of 2025.

Yeah, last gosh, it's already almost March.

Um it's a 24-unit village.

Uh it's up to two years of residency, has on-site supportive service, 24-7 on-site staffing.

So it's it's um meant to serve folks with kind of more complicated needs, behavioral health needs, substance use disorder needs.

Um, so that does have clinical behavioral health staff on-site, and as I said, it's 24-7 staffed.

Also been very successful.

Um next slide, Andrew.

Um another couple of local innovations that we're proud of in Clackamas County.

Um, the health housing system alignment team is a new staff team in in the housing and community development division.

Um, lots of great stuff has come out of that.

Um, but I think one of the most basic things is being able to um to um coordinate care and do what we call case conferencing, where our staff come together with staff at our nonprofit agencies and staff at Care Oregon or HealthShare or the plans to um and with with the consent of a participant, we can look at their health data and their housing data and match that together and and you know, kind of facilitate the coordinated delivery of care for folks who are needing housing and also needing their health conditions addressed, and have you know, there's a very obvious nexus between those two things.

But I think one of the most basic things is being able to coordinate care and do what we call case conferencing, where our staff come together with staff at our nonprofit agencies and staff at Care Oregon or HealthShare or the plans to and with the consent of a participant, we can look at their health data and their housing data and match that together and and you know kind of facilitate the coordinated delivery of care for folks who are needing housing and also needing their health conditions addressed and have you know there's a very obvious nexus between those two things.

So that's our health and housing case conferencing.

Um this picture is of a um a community paramedic, which is uh an out one of our outreach workers.

She is uh an employee of the county with the public health division.

That's that position is funded with SHS.

So she's able to do wound care and and triage and and really be a paramedic on the street in the camps.

Um city-led initiatives.

This might be familiar to this this council.

Um we uh in 2024, we issued a uh a notice of funding opportunity for cities in Clackamas County, and Twalleton has a part of part of the city in Clackamas County for funding for for city um city derived solutions.

So we, especially in the the rural parts of Clackamas County, you know, we had learned well that um it wasn't always welcome if the county came in and said, Here's what you need in your community, we're gonna bring this.

Well, that that often led to some pretty significant opposition.

So we said, well, cities, you you know what your problems are, you know what your community needs.

What would you like to see funded?

And so that's that's what we did.

And every every city that proposed um a uh program received funding.

Um the rural communities received non-SHS funding because those are not in the Metro Service District, so half of our county is outside of it.

Um Tualeton did receive a 250,000 dollar grant award to the Twilight and Food Pantry to replace their HVAC system and upgrade their refrigeration in a time of dramatically increased demand for food resources at the pantry.

So that's the city-led initiatives program.

Uh next slide, Andrew.

Um there were two main goals or or 10-year mandates of the voter approved measure of the supportive housing services.

One is that 5,000 people would be placed in permanent supportive housing.

So 5,000 households experiencing chronic homelessness would be served with permanent supportive housing.

Um and Clackamas County's share of that goal is 1,065.

In 24-25, we exceeded the 10-year goal.

We had placed 1,111 households by June 30th of 25.

Um the other one is that over a 10-year period, supportive housing services aimed to serve 10,000 households with to stabilize them with permanent housing.

So this is not chronically homeless folks.

Um in 25, Clackamas County exceeded its share of that 10,000 goal.

So what we received 21.3% of the funding, 2130 is our our share of the 10,000 household goal.

That was also exceeded significantly last year.

Um by this point, now all three counties have exceeded the 10-year goals of the Support of Housing Services Measure.

So it is really uh kind of doing the work of housing the people.

And next slide.

I think I'm I'm getting close to the end here.

Thanks for your patience.

Um a few a few components of kind of ways that we've continued to improve our system.

Um we have a you know uh this this new and robust continuum of services from outreach to permanent supportive housing, but we still had people you know more people on the buy name list.

So that's our list by name of everyone we know of who has reached out to us to say I'm experiencing homelessness or I'm about to experience homelessness.

And so that by name list is how we we know who we need to serve, and we're able to prioritize by vulnerability within that list.

And prioritizing by vulnerability you know is is the right thing to do.

It's the triage way of of you know, really making sure that our folks aren't dying on the streets.

But there are lots of folks that aren't being served because they're never at that top 50 or that top 75.

So we instituted a resource navigation program, which is kind of an outgrowth of our coordinated housing access program.

So when someone calls CHA, coordinated housing access, and they are placed on the by name list or they're already on the by name list and they're calling to say, hey, what's what's up?

Any new updates you can tell me about my my place on the list.

We have a team that works with them with problem-solving conversations and sees if with a a light touch um they can move off of the by name list.

So what I mean by that is resource navigation is resourced, it has funds.

It's not a long-term voucher, but it's if you know you're in a Murphy's law situation and you lost the job because of the car broke down.

Okay, we have the resources, we can get your car fixed.

If we can do that, that might get you off the buy name list.

So that's an example.

There's I could you know go on and on and on.

them with problem solving conversations and sees if with a a light touch um they can move off of the by name list so what I mean by that is resource navigation is resourced it has funds it's not a long term voucher but it's if you know you're in a Murphy's law situation and you lost the job because of the car broke down okay we have the resources we can get your car fixed if we can do that that might get you off the buy name list so that's an example there's I could you know go on and on and on resource navigation is quite successful in in moving folks off of the by name list with a quick light touch um intervention to see okay what what you need is actually not 10 years of rent assistance it's something more specific limited and we can do that right now um the we have a 23 hour crisis stabilization center that opened a few months ago at the end of 2025 um this also has 13 beds of um up to 90 days of short term it's kind of a a transitional housing program in a stabilization center so one side of it is a is a psychiatric stabilization program so we partner with law enforcement it's not appropriate for someone to go to jail because they're having a crisis in the moment nor do they really need to be hospitalized.

This is where they can spend a day in a comfy chair with on site peer sort peer staff and clinical support to kind of work through that.

If they're experiencing homelessness they can access one of the 13 beds on our side I think of the you know the house the people side of the stabilization center.

But we also refer to the stabilization center for folks experiencing homelessness who aren't in a behavioral health crisis but are you know being noticed by law enforcement or the behavioral health resource officers of various police departments as struggling on the street in a specific way and those folks can go in there.

Inclusive engagement we have lots of venues where we engage with our community partners and community members we have a housing uh services uh advisory group which is new it just kind of started in the last year um it was a well I won't go into the backstory um we have a uh a a consultant that facilitates helps us facilitate that organization or that group uh and we have a um a lived experience group that informs our system and our coordinated housing access program called the core team that's a part of our inclusive engagement and then housing for success this is a a new as of this year or 2025 um economic empowerment program that's also meant to um um contain costs of the PSH program as I mentioned the RLA voucher rent you know goes up 10% a year so you can imagine that that would kind of quickly exceed our ability to do anything else if we have to spend 80 90% of our resources on permanent supportive housing three years from now well that means we're gonna have to cut shelter programs or something.

So we looked across our our uh PSH our ARLA recipients um and identified the lowest acuity households with with a a lengthy data analysis and then engagement with all of the case managers that serve that entire cohort of 1800 people.

So what we're looking for are folks that aren't 65 or older aren't permanently disabled have an income or have the ability or interest in in in in accessing income and those folks were enrolled in housing for success which is a three year rent assistance program with intensive three years of supportive services focused on economic development of the household so that's um uh employment specialists with the community family and uh CFCC children family and community connections division uh it's legal barrier buster support services with the Metropolitan public defenders um it's uh mental health navigators it's a lot of things it's really intensively focused on helping folks increase their ability to earn an income and and support their own housing needs independently and it comes with a matched savings account so whenever the household increases their income that increases their their share of their rent because the rent is a is pegged as a percentage of your overall household income so if you make a thousand dollars 28% of that goes monthly to your rent if you make zero dollars 28% of zero which is zero goes towards your rent so if you go from zero to a hundred we put a hundred dollars into the savings account up to twelve thousand dollars and at the end of the program the household can take the 12 the whatever's saved so that's the housing for success program and I've I've kind of gone at length so I I'm gonna go to the next slide and hopefully that's the last one.

No more no more that is the last one.

Okay.

So I was I was in tune with my slide deck.

That was a lot of information a lot of numbers I'm sorry.

But I'm we're very excited about the the progress of this of this program of this system of programs.

It's changed the world for us.

Thanks Maheed any questions or comments?

Counselor Brooks thanks so much for coming and I sit on the Pab for the Washington County um housing.

So I've heard much more about their work than about Clackamas County so I'm really glad that you're here and excited to listen to you.

I um also do have been a licensed clinical social worker and have done work and community practice as well.

And I'm curious if you interface at all with universities for either data or practicum experiences.

Yeah.

Yeah thank you counselor.

We we do in a number of ways.

So with um with data we we partner with the other two counties with PSU's um homelessness research act research and action collaborative HRAC on the point in time count.

So the point in time count since 2023 has been done as a regional count.

And so that's with the support of PSU's HRAC and you know eight eight we've engaged with ATRAC in the since SHS was implemented in a number of other ways too.

They were our partner on our first um fuse analysis frequent utilizers of of I forget what Fuse stands for the frequent utilizers of the emergency room of of jail um so we're looking at folks experiencing homelessness who are frequent utilizers of emergency services and then quantifying the costs and then saying this is the savings to the public when we end someone's homelessness.

So most of the services delivered with these dollars are through contracts with community based organizations.

And so we provide a lot of training to the case managers and outreach workers and so we have a relationship with uh Clackamas community college to help develop curriculum but we also have had a number of um interns is that the right word I think from folks that were working on their their practicum and they work with us to get their to get to get through that process yeah.

Okay.

And um I guess my other question right now is with the changes in funding like especially the supportive housing services like talking about those two different buckets of money I think people in the public don't necessarily understand those differentiation between those two funding sources.

So I guess as far as providing services and having more of an infrastructure um would you have if it's all programs even if we have it right now it can be choppy right so is it is there a way that we're systemizing it and is there a way that you see that we can support a stronger infrastructure here in the state I mean I came from dis Michigan from Detroit so I'm here and I'm just can't believe it sometimes.

Yeah yeah I mean Glackamas County I think to to an extent as well Washington County have been pretty fortunate in the extent to which SHS kind of dwarfed our other sources of funds that we'd rely on which as you said are are especially choppy.

I mean the as a as a volatile tax revenue measure it's a little bit choppy we're looking at a dip in revenue in 27-28 and the the in the fiscal year after the one that we're just entered well yeah entering um so that happens and we had a year where there was this anomalous pile of cash that came in from the tax measure that wasn't forecast it was a hundred million dollars more than was forecast and that the county's budgeted against so that's that's an example of how volatile that is that volatility was great because the three counties were able to say okay we'll that we'll hold on to that for one time you know uses and we have made good use of that CityLight initiatives is an example of well we had all of this extra money let's let's ask the cities how they would like to spend some of it so we've we've been able to use supportive housing services to kind of stabilize the floor of the system and whether the um you know we just went through an experience of not knowing whether the COC was going to continue to exist right this very unusual scenario where the the courts had to sort of tell HUD to do a thing or they weren't going to do the thing so we were uh planning and preparing for a loss of 11 million dollars in our system but when we had 75 million in SHS we were we had a plan you know we would lose some programs but we wouldn't lose our our system as such and that's true of the state funding from Oregon Housing and community services as well OHCS but that volatility is is you know much more impactful to communities that don't have SHS or that communities like Multnomah County where SHS is a is not the lion's share it's maybe half or three quarters maybe but um you know Multnomah County is talking about a 68 million dollar deficit for the next fiscal year for the homeless services department that's that's almost the entire SHS budget for Clackamas County last year.

But that volatility is much more impactful to communities that don't have SHS, or that communities like Multnomah County, where SHS is a is not the lion's share.

It's maybe half or three quarters, maybe.

But Multnomah County is talking about a 68 million dollar deficit for the next fiscal year.

For the homeless services department, that's that's almost the entire SHS budget for Clackamas County last year.

And that's not from SHS losses, right?

That's from state funding cuts, federal cuts, and then some other things as well.

I mean, yes, there is a need for with Governor Kotex declaration of a housing emergency on her first day of office and the institution of a lot of new housing programs.

That's been a boon.

But I think there have been the ideal and the intent was to create ongoing programming funded by the state.

And the challenge there is that that is funded on a biennial basis by a legislative kind of deliberation and voting.

And so we create long-term rent assistance programs and enroll people and make a promise.

We sign a contract with their landlord and make a promise.

And we only know we're going to get two years of funding for this long-term rent assistance program.

And that was cut.

It wasn't cut out, but it was reduced.

The funding for that was reduced.

I already mentioned the 74% reduction in eviction prevention dollars from OHCS.

Every one of our OHCS programs were were reduced this this biennium.

And that's that's a greater challenge than many might realize that when we're relying on biennial legislative decision making to kind of continue what need to be long-term social safety net programs we're making promises that I feel uncomfortable about, you know, to families that we'll we'll be we'll be supporting you with your rent for a long time.

Oh, maybe not.

That's a that's a challenge.

Thank you very much.

Thanks for your work.

I appreciate it.

Yeah.

Thank you for your presentation.

I think that in spite of everything, it looks like your program at Clackamas County has been tremendously successful, especially the 95% retention rate, which I've never heard of, and I've been in.

Human services nonprofit for 25 years.

So I I commend you for that.

Um what do you think that is?

What do you think it is that keeps people from going back?

Uh that's very unusual.

I hear other stories that um people tend to go back.

What makes you different from other counties, organizations to retain a 95%?

Um to your best of your knowledge.

Yeah.

Because I'm sure there are different stories.

I mean, I think a a large part of it, counselor, is um Clackamas County system is very coordinated.

And so it's a it's a family effort, right?

It's a team effort.

And so while it's it's a a few dozen contracts with nonprofits, we I have a monthly breakfast with all of those executive directors.

Um all of the case managers in those in those organizations are meeting with my staff regularly.

Um not just not just once in a kind of a general hey update meeting, but but training meetings, new resource meetings.

Um we do a lot of collaborative case conferencing.

So we we don't we don't let a case manager kind of try to solve a problem or work through a um an obstacle with a family on an island.

They they come and case conference.

So we have our experts and health care experts and others talking about what can we what can we put into place to support that family.

Um so I think the coordination is a big part of it.

So there's a there's a standard that everyone is aware of.

We're all we're all kind of being held to the same standard.

Um, with support of our board of county commissioners, we um negotiated against ourselves in contracts.

So by that I mean um early in SHS, I think we would receive um responses to our solicitations for programs with budgets that were really low on staff salaries.

And um I would ask them to to increase the salary and resubmit.

And so that's what I mean by negotiating against ourselves.

We were looking for you know, not poverty wages for folks who are serving the families coming out of homelessness.

And uh it's not a great thing when you're relying on on public you know, public services and you are someone else's public service.

I mean, that's that's a challenging place to be.

And unfortunately, that's where a lot of folks in in human services are, as as you know.

Um that's a part of it.

Um, I think the the um the culture of uh so what what SHS allowed us to do is approach things differently and with flexibility and a fresh kind of a fresh perspective.

It's not um it's not a very rigid rule-based tax measure.

It it really allows the the counties a lot of flexibility.

Um and so every single one of our program partners that is you know that is working with folks that are on that 95% retention statistic has a really healthy budget of flex funds, so flexible client service dollars that they can just use at their discretion, kind of.

The um the guidelines for flex fund utilization are are pretty broad.

I mean, they don't we don't say you can spend this much this much money a month on food and you have to they have to prove you don't go over.

You can only spend this much a month on transportation.

What we said instead was here are some examples of you know reasonable limits and things, you know, you don't want to buy a thousand dollar mattress necessarily.

Um so we would provide some guidance.

They weren't caps, they were you know budget budget guidelines, and we had three rubrics for the use of flex funds.

Is it supporting someone's um entry into housing from homelessness?

Is it supporting their retention of housing and not losing their housing, or is it part of an outreach you know, um encounter and you need to provide them some supplies?

If you can answer yes to one of those three questions, it's eligible use.

So that gave our partners the flexibility to do a lot of things that HUD contracts or OHCS contracts just don't give.

Um the voucher itself, the regional long-term rent assistance program.

We build a brand new team to administer that program.

It's not a HUD voucher.

At least for Clackamas County, I can speak for Clackamas County only.

It's um I I onboarded every one of those um those occupancy specialists, and I said, we are screening people in.

We're not screening people out.

That's we're we're not looking for the infraction to to get them the notice that they're gonna lose their their voucher.

That's not your job.

Your job is to make sure that doesn't happen.

And so the the philosophy and the culture of that team was very different than a HUD voucher, which is very compliance based.

You know, those occupancy specialists have the job of making sure that we're administering the HUD funding according to the very narrow, rigid requirements of HUD funding.

SHS doesn't have narrow rigid requirements, so we didn't impose any.

Um a problem-solving mentality and and really the goal is not compliance, the goal is housing the people.

That's the mission.

Well, thank you.

I think that many other um counties are agencies with that same mentality of unity and getting those solution versus creating more problems uh will follow that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Counselor Hillier?

Thank you, Councilor President.

So I thank you for your presentation.

I have just two questions, and really one is just kind of a highlight.

Uh the housing for success um seems really innovative and exciting.

And I'm curious, was that um community informed?

Yes.

And so and so you just launched that this last year.

Um not tonight, but I I'd love more information about that.

That's really exciting.

And number two, could you speak to um the impacts for our Twalton residents and all these numbers?

I mean, these are all big, great numbers.

And you reckon you know, we all recognize about a third of our community is in Clackamas County.

So could you help us um better understand how you're serving our residents, please?

Thank you.

Yeah, I mean, the um the with the coordinated housing access uh uh system that is our front door for all of our programs and services.

One of our our questions we ask when folks call us is do you have a meaningful connection to Clackhamus County?

And we don't we don't prioritize folks that don't.

That's so we're we're really trying to serve our community first with the resources that our community has.

And so the folks from Tualeton are who are calling us are our community members, and they're going to be, you know, we're gonna um assess their needs and put them in, you know, match them with the appropriate program as we can.

Um so we are serving folks in Tualeton um with all of the programs that I spoke about, from street outreach to eviction prevention to placements in permanent housing.

Um but I think we're also um like my my colleagues at the at Washington County, we're building a system in uh in our suburbs, in our communities out here where 10 years ago uh someone in Tualton or someone in Lake Oswego or someone in Milwaukee who was experiencing street homelessness and really just could not spend another night outside.

They needed to go to Portland.

And we knew that, and my colleagues in Washington County knew that, and we would a lot of it was about making connections with those programs, finding if there's a bed open and trying to facilitate them going there.

And so we're also helping people in the community of Tualton and and in our communities across Clackamas County and Washington County.

Um get the services they need where they are and stay in the community.

That's awesome, thank you.

And so do you have a worker similar to our Megan?

You know, I was uh I I heard Megan say a little bit about her role out in the hall, and I I was very curious.

I want to learn more.

That would be great because it feels like there are a lot of um opportunities for community members to learn more about resources that Clackamas County offers, and um hopefully they're sustainable, like I um can appreciate uh uh questionable budgeting or budgets and funding, but um I think it's really important that we get to learn more about um how we can best support our residents.

So thank you very much.

Well, um thank you for coming, Vahid.

I've heard your presentation before, not as in depth.

So this is really great.

And the one thing I've always been impressed with Clackmas County is it seems like once you get a person in your system, you do all you can to keep them and help them.

Yeah, and that's a really great thing.

I do have one question for you.

If someone's in need of services in Clackmas County, who do they call or who do they contact?

They contact the coordinated housing access phone number.

Okay.

Which is 503485?

Oh, I'm gonna put you on the spot.

Yeah.

That was right.

503 655.

No, I think I said six by four.

503 65575 is coordinated housing access.

Yeah.

Keep up the good work and uh I hope um we have some SHS funds into the next decade.

Me too.

Thank you, Council President.

Thank you, Counselors.

Okay, next um on general business, we have the consideration of recommendations from the council committee on advisory appointments.

Um I just wanted to make one statement that this will be our last time that um going forward, all our meetings will have minutes that will come to council, so you'll be receiving those going forward.

And then I'm going to hand it off to Councilor Reyes.

Okay, thank you very much.

Um we had we met, gosh, I forgot already when we met, February 3rd or um so we met uh the three of us, Councilor Sacco, Counselor Umerie and I, we um we interview uh some folks for different committees, and um like always, we always get more and also a lot of qualified qualified um candidates, but um unfortunately there's only a few spots and um but we're very proud uh of the people that come in front of us and we always encourage volunteerism around the community and to reach out to the city.

There are other ways to support the city.

Um but these are the selected candidates for um the following committees.

I'm just gonna read one and then counselor Saco is gonna read the rest.

So uh for the budget advisory committee, Gerardo Sanchez Velasquez, and I believe he came to one of our meetings already.

So you have met him, uh great guy, and we're hoping that he brings in a lot of great um insight for to that committee.

And then we have sorry.

Um and then we have um Teddy and I was going to try to pronounce his last name, but I think I'll just do it.

Say it one more time.

Shacknardis.

Thank you, Nicole.

Um, for the budget advisory committee, um, who is our student uh representative and um Teddy was also on the budget committee last year um and attended um our summit um as was very engaged there.

Um we have Beth Dittmant, uh the Tualton Parks Advisory Committee, uh Nisha George, the Tualton Parks Advisory Committee, and then Gary Harborman for the core area parking district board.

Um so if there aren't any questions, I would like to make a motion um to approve these folks uh for um the boards and committees outlined.

Second out.

I um next items remove con from consent agenda there were none, so we're on to council communications and um I'll start with Sherilyn.

Let me find my place here.

Well, Heidi already mentioned it and stole my thunder, but the wrap on the new recvan.

Really excited about seeing that around town as a backdrop for I don't know, programs or whatever.

It's just so playful and engaging.

So I'm really excited about that.

We're out to bid on the linear park that is down by Plan Beck Gardens.

We expect to start construction in the spring, although that contract will come before you for approval.

So you'll see it before with before we start construction.

They sold to Knife River.

And Knife River is taking over operations.

They are they have met with us, they have they're engaging in kind of what the city plans are.

That area is part of the Southwest concept plan, Southwest Concept Plan.

And so we're excited to engage with them and see what's next for that area.

Last week we had a supervisor meeting.

So we revised our PCARD policy and have and rolled out a training.

So that was productive.

Module four was about workplace wellness, and it was very it was it was a really good training.

We're gonna be rolling that out to the council, I believe, in the first half of this year.

So I I don't have a specific date, but we'll get one on the on the books.

And it's a collaborative program uniting West Coast libraries, so Oregon, Washington, and California, in a shared celebration and dialogue around literacy.

So activities will be occurring March through May.

And it's exciting to uh you may have heard like one book, one Beaverton, one book, one uh Lake Uswigo.

Um so this expanded that to be the whole West Coast.

So it's um it's really cool.

So you'll be seeing more about that.

We hired a new volunteer coordinator, and her name's Kate Griffin, and she started last week, I believe, and very exciting.

She's just jumped right in.

We'll have her in front of you for an introduction.

And then I sent out an email earlier today about SoulSmart.

So SoulSmart is a um uh program through Energy Ready, which is a national initiative supporting local governments that take proactive steps to support new energy technologies, including solar, electric vehicles, and energy source storage.

So we um as soon as we got Amanda on that that that was one of the items in our climate action plan that was seen to be as a high high producing um like a high um priority.

So anyway, we got the bronze designation, and we got a plaque that we'll put out in front in the lobby somewhere that just designates that um that we had to have like an online permitting and that that we're supportive of uh our planning and permitting processes that reduce costs and expand opportunities for residents and businesses to use solar energy.

So um I very exciting that we got that.

Unfortunately, the funding was cut um, it was impacted by the US Department of Energy funding cuts, and so currently isn't providing technical assistance to local governments anymore as they were, but um they we Amanda attended a webinar that um gave us lots of good ideas about um uh pursuing our own kind of uh technical technical skills.

So that's what I've got.

Um Councillor Sacco.

Thank you.

Um I attended the WRWC where we reviewed the Willamette intake facilities update, um, the water supply system updates.

Um and so if you want any additional information on those, be happy to share.

Um we also reviewed um the water and drought report.

Um, and this uh gosh, I think it was February 10th was our meeting, um, and it was um not a very great report, but I guess I'm hopeful with the snow and the rain as of late that um that outlook will turn around a little bit.

Um we also reviewed and approved next year's budget, which ends next year's budget ends June 30th, uh 27.

Um we did not have an idea committee um this past month.

We did have a we did not have a quorum due to all the sickness going around, um but we did have a special training to discuss meeting rules um similar to um the ethics training that trainings that all of us have uh been um that have attended, um, and it was uh presented by Kevin who did a great job.

Thank you for your your work.

Um it was terrific.

I think everybody learned a lot.

Um that's it.

Thank you.

Counselor Hillier.

Thank you.

Um I attended the uh Washington County Consolidated Communications uh board meeting.

Uh we had a budget meeting on February the 19th, and um we went through course budgets like for this um big operation for fire and um police and I continued, I know I've mentioned it before, but they continue to be um understaffed by around 80 employees, and there were a lot of questions or at least some questions regarding that in the um prior to approving the budget.

Um so I want to encourage people to apply for jobs there with the 911 and a variety of other things, but also note that the million plus dollars that they have for those employees are most of that's being paid in overtime because the employees that they do have are getting you know overtime.

So it's kind of a worry about like the mental health and strain and on those really important services.

Um so kind of is is something that um I think that will be brought up, will continue to be brought up, and many of the chiefs uh are concerned about.

Another thing that was very telling in the budget discussion is that they continue to increase the city's portion uh of the amount, and it's made very clear that most communities like ours cannot continue to afford these massive increases, and um because they're we're having to make cuts in our own local budgets, and so that I think is gonna get discussed further, and I look forward to those discussions.

But anyway, the currently that will move forward.

I did want to report that I was able uh John with TriMet at Chief.

Do you have anything to add to that?

Good.

Yeah, I mean I know there was a lot more, but that's where we are for now.

Um John with TriMet, one of the folks that were here last meeting, so I I um he left his card as probably most of you got one, and I was able to connect with him, and he has done some education and they're working really hard on doing some additional conversations with the Plumbet Garden folks.

Uh, and so I was really really pleased and just wanted to say publicly thank you to John at TriMet for being so responsive.

I thought that was great.

And um I'm also doing something very unique.

I I'm not sure that I'm representing the city, but I do want to mention it here that I'm a an essay judge, and then we'll be participating with the Tiger Chamber of Commerce as they bring forward the Civics B.

It's a national thing done by the chambers of commerce, United States Chambers of Commerce, and so I'm madly reading essays from middle school students across the nation.

So that's kind of fun.

And then also, I think we've you want me to do that now, or like okay, thank you.

So we've all been reading the um emails regarding the 103rd and IBAC streets uh intersection stop signs or the suggested the suggested stop signs that seem to be in that area, and because it is literally IBAC runs is literally in my backyard.

Um I just wanted to see if we could maybe make a request to have staff look for more preventative and forward thinking solutions on that.

I think that part of my beef with the whole thing, to be quite honest, is that bicyclists don't follow the rules either.

So the cars aren't following the road, the bicyclists aren't, and a lot of them are well, they're all different ages.

And so I really think that this is not necessarily a unique issue in our community.

I I'm not so in my opinion, but um I do think that we need to move forward on some sort of um proactive solution, and I would like to volunteer to be part of the team that works on that.

Thank you.

Councilor Reyes.

Councilor Gonzalez.

So no no official meetings either.

Councilor Brooks.

Um I'm gonna talk about transportation at the end, but don't let me forget.

So my meetings.

Um there's a lot of meetings, so I'm gonna go to the National League of Cities uh congressional conference in next month.

Um as I mentioned before, I was appointed to three different um committees for that organization.

And oftentimes right before those conferences happen, there's a lot of webinars that we look at.

So some of the topics of the webinars, some of these are webinars, and there's information I can share if people are interested.

Um so the first one was how rural leaders are creating economic opportunity, which sounds like it'd just be for rural leaders, but it's really not, it's for all of us, and um there was inf a lot of good information about that.

I also have been volunteering with the titanium committee for I don't know, a long time now, a year or more, and so we had our monthly meeting.

Um, Annalia was sick too, so we did have some updates from the chamber, and um, and then looked at the program, which is going really well.

So just congratulations to the chamber on um starting that new level for manufacturing.

Um, and then we had the real kickoff, real council kickoff, which is the racial equity and leadership kickoff um on the 12th.

Um on the 12th, I also saw Secretary of State Tobias Reed speak about the state of a lot of it was about elections, and then on that evening, um I met with the PAB and we went through the awarded um cities and um nonprofits and Twalton was part of the the awards, so there's a full list.

Um if anyone's interested in that, just reach out.

And then we had the on the 17th was the Arts Advisory Council, and we selected the um the finalists for the new box wraps that will be happening.

The next uh arts advisory council meeting, it won't be here, but they will be doing a bus trip and looking at all the sites that are possibilities for the new wraps and selecting the sites, and a lot of times they'll select the sites that go kind of with the art in some way or another, and also visually appropriate.

Um, and then on the 17th, also I met with a small group for um the women's caucus for the LOC um women's caucus, and we are working on helping create a checklist for women that are interested in running for office.

So if you know anyone, um we'll have resources and I'm looking forward to helping with that happen, make that happen.

Um and then also on the 18th, I went to an early childhood leaders peer network series through the NLC.

That there was amazing speakers.

There are two women that were from Minneapolis talking about the long-range impacts of the trauma early childhood kids are gonna be dealing with for a long time in some very innovative ways that they have been working to meet those needs for the last 40 years through intergovernmental um coordination, and that's something I'll probably write something up about.

Um health uh care updates in Oregon, also looked at that one, and then there was another one all about the basics, which I sent out that information about the new transportation act that we're gonna be supporting.

Um prevent and protect was one about supplemental insurance.

They started off with law enforcement and needs.

It's a new partner at the NLC, and then um you know and that's innovative wellness.

Um and then uh, and that was a lot about prevention, and then the titanium happy hour, which I also saw Council Reyes at, and there's wonderful great people in our community, and then with the transportation conversation, I feel like we forgot about it, but one of the goals um the council goals um that we had talked about, and maybe dropped off the list was doing uh committee for transportation, like uh advisory committee for this issue of transportation since we're keeps being the number one issue to voters and there's community voices that I think can be lifted up.

So I don't know if we want to um if there's uh an any agreement to kind of look at that and talk about that at another meeting.

Clarification.

Are you are you suggesting that we should have one on the advisory committee for transportation?

Yeah, yeah, we had talked about it on the dias, and um kind of like that idea, but then we for kind of let it go, and I just you know, especially with counselor hillier's conversation and a lot of the regional issues that we're facing with bridges and buses and all kinds of things.

I wouldn't appeal to it.

I I would support that.

Um looking into having uh a committee on transportation.

I think other cities have something similar, if I'm if if I recall our conversation.

Um yeah, I mean it's our number one issue, and so I think resourcing it would be appropriate.

Councilor Reas.

Would it be like a just I don't know if we want to brainstorming up, but I'm thinking it would it be another one just because we're starting also like uh assessing our conserv our transportation and then oh and once we're done or do we want it to be uh so I think that's I mean if other people remember correctly, we had talked about this and we said we were going to look at it again after the new TSP was in place, which it is.

Oh, okay.

Um Mayor Bubenick.

Are you awake, Mayor?

I'm awake.

No, I just I agree with Council President Pratt that we did discuss this that once the TSP was done that possibly looking into the formation of a citizen advisory committee on transportation.

Yeah, it would be like an ongoing one.

Yeah, it wasn't it didn't come up as part of the goals.

Um we never had a conversation as a part of the goals.

It did come up uh um uh uh in context of the community group around the the TSP, but then it it never got legs from there.

I wouldn't I there's a lot that goes into uh um making a new advisory committee, and um I would suggest that if you want to put that on our plate that we come back and have a conversation about scoping that and staff resources and all that because it's it's no small lift.

No, um I'm okay.

I'm not I don't think it's a race or a rush, but we did met we did talk about it, and then we just totally forgot to bring it up during the um and I apologize, I should have brought it up during the um advance.

So is that something you could bring back to us with our kind of scoping what it would take?

And we're happy to come back with a listening session perhaps, and and thinking about what I don't know, not every city does.

I know like there are some cities that do, and like I don't know how that fits within our you know, our uh the context of what is on the work plan.

So like we can come back in a work session and if you so direct if there's if there's four of you that who would be in favor of that be interesting back at a work session.

Just take your time.

I mean, I don't think it should be, but it's something to be considered in the future, yeah.

So nothing that's but I'm for it.

Okay, great.

Um Mayor Bubenek's uh just two meetings of note recently uh both on the same day to the JPAC on uh the 19th.

Uh a couple items that you want to keep uh aware of is uh there was an amendment made to the Metro's 2023 RTP.

Uh they had to amend it to include the 82nd Avenue, TV Highway, and Montgomery Park, street car extension projects.

Um because their current RTP isn't done yet.

And so in order for any of these projects to get any kind of federal funding, it has to be in your R your current RTP.

So that was approved.

Uh Metro also just passed their review from the US DOT.

Uh every four years, the USDOT uh will come in and do an evaluation and audit of uh metropolitan planning organizations.

They were found to be in compliance.

They did have two corrective actions that they've already taken.

And USDOT had five recommendations uh which are discretionary for Metro to complete, but they are looking at those.

Uh there was an update on the high speed rail project.

Some of us remember this from several years ago, that there is a dream to have a high speed high speed rail corridor between Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, BC.

Uh Metro along with Oda, Wadot, and British Columbia are working collaboratively on this.

It's uh supposed to be a 345 mile corridor.

Uh that has dedicated tracks to allow the train to do up to 160 miles per hour.

So they're envisioning you could be in Vancouver, BC in two hours if this ever gets built.

Uh so right now, between now and 2028, they're in project planning.

They have 45 deliverables that have to complete in that time.

Uh some of the questions that were brought up was um, you know, is this feasible?

You know, can we get this done?

What will the cost be?

Uh, but for now they're just doing basic project planning, more to come on that.

Uh they have federal funding uh for the next couple of years, but then they'll have to go back for federal funding after that.

Uh the second item at uh JPAC was that uh Metro is kicking off their future vision update.

Uh they're gonna look out 50 years.

Uh they stressed that this is a vision, not a plan for Metro.

Their last vision was completed in 1995.

They've convened a commission of 23 members that represent uh different constituencies across the region.

They anticipate in April of 26 that they will go to public and uh gather what are our regional values.

Then in December of 26, what should be our regional priorities based on those values?

They do have a youth committee that is part of the fusion uh the division update, and that is comprised of 20 uh 16 to 24-year-olds.

They will be starting a meeting in March.

Uh my second meeting of note on the same day was the Washington County Mayors met and we needed to select the two members, the two city representatives for Metro's Regional Policy and Oversight Committee.

Uh Mayor Beach Pace was selected as a primary, and Mayor Lacey Beatty was selected as the alternate to represent Washington County on that committee.

That's all I have, Chair.

Thank you.

Okay.

Um well I wrote the Trium Met Line 96 new test ride, and um it it was interesting, and um I got off at the first exit in town because that's where they were talking to people for the reactions, and um one thing that wasn't really true to how it will be is that they made no stops along the way.

So it really didn't show you the time difference.

And um what I heard from the people that got off the bus there that is um overwhelmingly used for people to commute to downtown Portland.

It was an express line, and the they're very concerned about the time and the extra time it's gonna take to get to work.

So that's what I got off that ride, but it was a nice bus.

Um and then I went to um Clackmas County uh Metro subcommittee, and um they talked about their the regional transportation options program and their um grants that they're small grants and loans for communities, and one thing I really did like though that they um in their different goals they really wanted to be open to different communities' needs, not just having kind of a blanket solution for everybody.

So that was kind of a neat program.

And then um we had a presentation from Metro about the supporting the regional economy where they pointed out, which some of us already know that um the Portland metro area uh is uh one of only five of 50 metro areas in the United States lose that lost jobs over the past year, so it's not great.

But they um their big promotion was um increasing the industrial lands.

But um I've been listening to the League of City legislative updates, and those have been kind of interesting.

I think the the TLT one, the people that um didn't want the funds to go to the cities and were promoting jobs, um they were at a conference or something, and they actually had robots instead of people serving the food, so that got pointed out as a little ironic, I guess.

And then um the last thing I have is that um we received, I think today the city uh um an asked from ODOT that we support I'm gonna read this um funding for the Interstate Phi Boon Bridge Environmental Planning and Pre-design project, and you know the Boon Bridge is there, Wilsonville, and um they would like us to um sign on this letter that goes to Senators Wyden and Merkley and Representative Salinas.

Um the mayor and I talked with um Mike McCarthy earlier today, and this is a project that will help Twalleton, but um I would like to suggest um with after a discussion that we add in an additional paragraph asking for auxiliary lanes from our exit to at least to Wilsonville, but because if I don't know if you've ever driven to Wilsonville in the afternoon, but you know where that lane ends, it's terrible.

So um anyway, I'm just asking if the council would support a letter with that paragraph added.

Okay.

I think we're good.

And our last item is adjournment.

I move to adjourn.

Me too.

Second.

Have a good night.